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> Rob wrote regarding a post from Dennis Pierce:
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> >This is exactly why scuba diving should be banned completely. It is 

Harold wrote:

> Rob, I must disagree; 

Harold, I think Rob had tounge firmly in cheek when he wrote that. Anybody that 
loves diving as much as Rod must love it wouldn't seriously suggest banning 
diving.

The point is that outsiders might take that view when somebody does something 
really stupid like this.

This wasn't an accident, it was an inevitability considering the way that guy 
behaved.

The dive plan was a disaster waiting to happen. Leaving a boat unmanned with 
deco bottles on the line wasn't just stupid, it was suicidal.

If the boat had drifted a little farther away he probably would have died in 
the water. Even if they carried their deco gas and made it safely to the 
surface, they may have drowned or died of hypothermia if they lost the boat and 
were too far out to swim to shore.

I've left a boat unmanned before but only when doing non-deco dives with other 
boats around and after going down and securing the line to a wreck.

I hope the guy gets better, but what he did was so blatently stupid it's hard 
to have any sympathy for him, particularly after he was warned on several 
occasions that what he was doing was unsafe.

Rick

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