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Diver, you are the fourth person on that boat who has said the same thing: that this was the tragic ending of days of deep air diving. I now hear that Rob was feeling like he was getting nowhere, and needed to prove something, and that he was peer-pressured into this deep air diving. He had mentioned getting old. Parker Turner told me the day he died that he "did not want to turn 40". Sheck told me the week before he died that he was getting too old, and that he could only work out every fourth day because it took him three days to recover, and then he was right back where he started. He said he did not understand how I did it, since I am his age. I told him you have to show up every day - you have to show up every day at everything that counts. Apparently Rob Palmer's wife had made him promise not to do any deep air diving in Egypt, due to the fact that he would be in the company of some of the worst strokes in diving , known for their deep air lust , and litle else worth mentioning ( see Aquacorps Magazine, the Wah Wah edition). Rob promised not to do it, and this is why his wife thinks he did not. There are three tragedies here: one is Robs' death, another is the peer pressure by the worst low lifes in diving that led to it, and the third is the coverup that followed. The string of death and destruction of lives that has followed these people, as evidenced not only by the massive deep air body count, but more recently by the string of accidents that immediately followed : Rob Parker, the two in Cozumel, the one here in Lauderdale, and now another in the Great Lakes a couple of days ago marches on unabated because some of the biggest names in diving keep covering it all up . Only a real mental midget would suggest there is any such thing as an ability to dive deep on air, and only a low life , irresponsible self-deluded idiot would suggest to anyone theat this activity carries some demonstration of ability with it - kind of like fisting ability, drunk driving ability, or russian roulette ability. I saw Hal Watts recently, and he reminded me that only a complete idiot would think they could dive deep on air, but then they get to pay him $1000 to find that out, while other obvious promoters of this activity go out and do it themselves , and he mentioned one particularly insidious fat slob, who pockets an enitire $15 from each believer - cheap thrills - life has more meaning in third world slums that it does to these jerks. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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