He is thinking of Rob Parker, who died deep on air
in a cave. He had one bottle of mix and one of air
as sidemounts, ran out of mix, figure out the rest.

Actually Alton, while you were the first person I
phoned from the dive site the day ParkerTurner died,
I neglected to tell you that Gavin was diving a
Gavin scooter and Parker was diving a tekna. The
tekna batteries died short of the roundtrip and
Gavin was towing Parker. 4 minutes earlier to the
door and they would have gotten through the
restriction prior to the reversal like I did that
day.

As you know , i do not allow anything but real
scooters now. Also, we tow scooters for a dive of
that magnitude now.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alton Hall, Jr. <ahall@da*.co*>
To: Harry, Quinn F <quinn.f.harry@lm*.co*>
Cc: 'Joel Markwell' <joeldm@mi*.co*>;
Techdiver <techdiver@aq*.co*>; Cavers
<cavers@cavers.com>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Die Deep On Air


>Palmer died deep on air. Parker Turner died as a
result of a temporary reverse
>flow likely caused by the development of a new sink
hole in the system in
>which he was diving. Parker is to my knowledge the
only person who ever died
>diving in a cave without breaking one of the rules.
Alton
>
>"Harry, Quinn F" wrote:
>
>> Didn't Rob Palmer die in a cave, near the exit
from being crushed (or
>> pinned) by the falling rock of a cave-in?  I may
be wrong, but seems to me
>> he did not die from using air.  I am NOT
advocating air mind you, only
>> separating apples from oranges.
>>
>> Quinn
>>
>> > From: Joel Markwell wrote:
>> > <snip> ...  One article quotes Rob Palmer in
the margin:
>> >
>> > "When you dive deep you can really enjoy the
cosy effect of nitrogen
>> > narcosis as it closes around you." --Rob
Palmer, shortly
>> > before he died.
>> >
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