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> Parker Turner, was killed when Indian Springs reversed flow avalanching a
good 
> amount of material into the cave and blocking the entrance. I was there in
the 
> water, so I know what happened. We almost lost ten guys, but luckily I made 
the 
> wrong gas for the dive and Lamar and I aborted when it went deeper than our 
mix 
> ( he was diving one of my sets of hundreds, luckily, and Bill Main turned his 
> team around for some unknown reason only a short didstance into the cave. The 
> other two teams dicked around and could not get their act together in time to 
> get in, and that left Gavin and Parker who went to the end, and came back to 
> find the entrance blocked. It blew back open, but just as they both ran out
of 
> gas. Gavin was able to maintain a grip on his deep nitrox and Parker , who
had 
> taken his tanks off, blew up to the ceiling and missed his. Not a good day
for 
> any of us. We had several guys quit after that, and it took Jarrod Jablonski 
to 
> get me back into the water again: he promised a weenie dive and then took me 
on 
> the dive from hell. Lamar would not dive a again for months, and I got Gavin 
> back in with a trip to Mexico that winter with Bill Main and me. 
> 
> George M. Irvine III
> DIR WKPP
> 1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316
> 954-493-6655 FAX 6698
> Email gmiiii@in*.co*
> 

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