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George Irvine <gmirvine@sa*.ne*> wrote: >Chrissy, I have to thank you for giving me the opportunity to hammer >some of the biggest strokes in diving : you and the usdct. On your first >question, the sematics of how you killed your buddy diving deep on air >at Weenies Nest is irrelevant - the fact is, as in "Thunderdome", two >men ( and some may question the liberal use of that word) enter, one man >leaves. You are here, buddy is dead - you , my friend, are a stroke, a >clueless , gutless , spineless, lying stroke. George, you seem to be implying here that anybody who goes into a cave and comes back out without the entire team is a stroke. I've been following Techdiver for long enough to know that you of all people cannot mean that, but newer subscribers might not know. By all means, critique the way Chris dives (I've never seen him in the water) or hammer anything specific he did wrong that day, but the simple fact that his buddy died doesn't make him a stroke all by itself. I've gone back to the archives (www.aquanaut.com, message from Chris dated 13 Aug 1996, entitled "Eagle's Nest '90"), and the issues seem to be: * The other diver had an undisclosed medical condition involving periodic loss of consciousness; keeping his mouth shut about something that called for a no-dive decision probably sealed his fate. * 175' on air; IMHO too deep in an overhead environment, although as Eagle's Nest has been described to me they might have had a near- vertical ascent to air above them. It'd still be pushing it even in openwater, though. * Chris' ascent may have been as slow at 35 FPM (up from 175' in maybe as long as five minutes, not timed). Bringing an unconscious diver up alive from that depth is iffy, although JJ has certainly raised expectations of what should be possible in that regard. Anyway, I wasn't there, only two people were there and only one is alive to talk about it, and the only sense we can make out of a diver's death is to try to learn how not to let it happen again. -- Anthony DeBoer http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/ adb@he*.re*.or* (here) adb@ge*.co* (work) #include "std.disclaimer" -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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