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Rod- I was on an overnighter to the Eureka with Ken and others. I had never met him before (or heard of him). He bent my ear for a couple of hours about his diving, I found him an interesting person who seemed to know what he was talking about. And you are right, he did sound like a man possessed as he outlined his plans for the mitchell wrecks. At the time I thought he was a wee bit looney, but now that I've hung out on Techdiver a while, I not so sure. By the way while I was hanging on the line after the first dive on this trip, I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head. I ducked down and rolled over to see what the hell. It turns out that a certain DIVER had found a sling spear stuck in the wreck and had it hanging from his belt with the point pointed guess where. Using the appropriate hand and finger signals I indicated to the particular DIVER he needs to watch out where his fucking spear was dangling. Not a word of apology on the surface. BTW your book _Shipwrecks Diving the Graveyard of the Atlantic_ is terrific, first rate. I particularly enjoy your wreck diagrams, very helpful. Are you going do anything for north of NC? >You don't search for the diver at 400 feet, you already know where he is >because you are with him. Somebody emailed me a message that said the guy >who was lost stopped before he reached the wreck and Clayton went on >without him to touch the wreck and say that he made it. Though diving with >Clayton is the exception, it is a myth that it is every man for himself. >You certainly want to be able to save yourself without help, but there are >times when you need help. Why did two divers make the dive? If two of them >attempted the dive then they both should have made the dive. That one >diver stopped before he reached the wreck meant the other should have >stopped. What kind of agreement is it on a very deep dive that says both >of us plan the dive together, both of us gear up together, both of us >enter the water together, both of us go down the anchor line together, but >when one of us has a problem on the dive, it is every man for himself. >What kind of fucked warped logic is that? Look at the results of that >kind of logic. You have a DEAD diver. Exploration at any cost is not the >name of the game. If something goes wrong for someone on the team, you >have a responsibility to try and make it right and then punt the dive. >Come back another day. Clayton is not an explorer, he's a dickwad whose >total self-esteem is wrapped up in telling other divers that he made a ten >minute dive to touch a wreck in 450 feet of water while breathing neon. I, >unfortunately, took this fuck brain on deeper dives early in his career >and witnessed the beginning of his obsession with depth as the sole factor >for his interest in diving. > >There is a true story about a DIVER diving on the Osfreisland (deep dive) >a few years ago. Three divers, one of which was this DIVER, were on the >hull in low vis. There was a current and the anchor started slipping and >began to drag off the hull. All three divers were up current from the >anchor but not that far away. Our DIVER being nearest the anchor and not >that far away from the other two divers saw the anchor moving. Rather than >alert the other two members of the team nearby, he bailed and scrambled >for the anchorline. One of the other two divers happened to turn and see >our DIVER bailing, alerted his buddy and swimming with the current caught >up with the anchorline. By the time they reached it, our DIVER was long >gone up the anchorline and out of sight. They never saw DIVER again until >later in deco. Who was DIVER?
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