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oh, i knew this was gonna come up, is the shit gonna hit the fan or what. On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Slayer wrote: > Dennis, > > On the subject of the 'deep air' club - > > Since you were at the Draeger party, maybe you could clear up > the stories I have heard. According to the grape vine, that > raimo clown, who was quoted in AC, didn't exactly share all the > facts. > very true > The story I heard was that the dive recorded in AquaCorps was his > *second* deep air dive. The day before he made a 300+ air dive, didn't > bring an extra tank, *and* there was a student with the group. > The facts about the first dive, as I heard them are: > true > A) The student was left alone at 260fsw, on air (his first dive this deep) > was left alone.. i followed him to 170 (my air comfort level, especially due to the fact that i had no redundency and no buddy and was diving a reg that was acting up.. stupidy on my part) because he <<<was>>> left alone... completely. was his first dive this deep. dont know what gas. i think he was a trimix student, he may have been on mix.. landed (and i mean crash landed on a ledge at 260) was diving independent 80's. did not see any he tanks at the shop tho.. no one else was on mix. > B) raimo continued to below 300fsw, others went even deeper > true, about six in all, some of them had never been really deep on air, or should i say "most" had not been really deep. one of the divers that went to 375fsw didn't even have an alternate reg, much less an h or y valve.. they were all on 80's with no deco gas... did i say no deco gas... i guess someone did get back on the boat and decant some 50% from the rebreather tanks for the last "stop" of their deco. i believe it was one of the guys that went to 325.. imho there was not much <<pre dive planning>>. > C) The student ascended alone, and was left alone during deco > true, i stayed at 170 for five minutes or there about, until he seemed to gain control of his decent :-) (wham, took that long for the dust to settle so i could see him.. good thing there was a ledge there). he started doing reg switches and seemed ok.. i don't know if i would have gone after him or not.. if he would have had a serious problem.. > D) The student surfaced alone, some distance from the "instructors" they didn't even know were he was, or seem to give a shit. > > As I understand it, these facts are taken from conversations where the > divers were braging about the dives afterwards. > they were definitely bragging and laughing about the dive.. even the boat captain went on that dive. scared the holy shit out of the germans.. they were walking around shaking their heads.. one made a comment to me about my depth.. he made an effort to check my computer to see if i had been on the deep dive. something to the effect of "i thought more of you than that, but i guess it is your ass on the line". they made no effort to keep it quiet. raimo made a comment about me not being on the boat when the 441 dive was made.. it is true that i would not go back out with the group after the 375fsw dive, so i can't say what went on that day. who are you anyway.. dp > > Regards, > > Slayer > > > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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