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From: <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 06:47:36 -0400
To: john.r.strohm@bi*.co*
CC: sallot@mi*.co*, cavers@cavers.com, jeffbentley@mi*.co*,
rose@cs*.sc*.ed*, TOM.MOUNT@wo*.at*.ne*, wwm@sa*.ne*
Subject: Re: labeling reply to Bill Mee

John, you are so right , and Mount continues to be so, so wrong. He has
the lawsuits to prove it.

john.r.strohm@BI*.co* wrote:
> 
> >As you pointed out the dive shop screwed up by filling an "air bottle"
> >with non-air, but if the instructor had been doing his job he'd realize
> >the human element (the dive shop) could make mistakes and would have
> >analyzed the gases to prevent that.
> 
> And I notice we haven't heard very much about what factors led up to the
> shop making the screwup in the first place, or what procedural changes
> IANTD and/or the shop will be making to keep this from happening again.
> 
> We HAVEN'T heard how the bottle was marked when it went into the shop.  We
> HAVEN'T heard whether it was marked appropriately for "hot mix" or not.
> 
> Tom, for the love of Christ, this was a fatality looking for a place to
> happen.  It is going to happen again, and there may not be an instructor
> around to make the save next time.

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