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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 23:06:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim Olson <deepdive@cv*.or*>
To: TDILLINGER <TDILLINGER@pr*.ne*>
cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: who is to say what is right or wrong

While I agree that you can't force anyone to do it your way, or the
right way, the problem is there are too many people who don't
have the EXPERIENCE to KNOW the SAFEST way.  The problem is just
magnified when the people you learn from do not tell you 
what you should avoid.   We can all make our own mistakes, sure,
and we can all die from them...that's fine...people should just 
avoid contributing to OTHERS deaths by giving poor instruction.
Once a diver has the proper EXPERIENCE, he will KNOW what works
and what doesn't.


P.S.  As I said in my previous post, I heard the diver was on air.
That said, I also heard he had a freeflow.   You can't necessarily
fault him for the freeflow.....at the depth he was at, the water temp
was 38-39deg. F.  and up here it happens all the time.  BUT, if he
was on air, that just means his REACTION to the freeflow may have
not been so good.  If he was on mix, it may have still happened
though.  Poor reactions were no doubt the actual "Cause" of death.

Tim






On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, TDILLINGER wrote:

> everyone has there opinion on what is the best thing to do,great but
> like everything else opinions will very .. we as people should try to
> capitalize on what has happend and use our god given intelegence to try
> to figure out what will happen.  we all take the risk every time we get
> in the water, if we got into a car accident we would not go running back
> to our guides then to aim blame..  so why would this be any
> different.diving is a high risk period.. no matter how much we as people
> prepair there will be failure, IE,gear failure,panic,  ts all trial and
> error, unfortunately not to much room for error. Its fantastic to see
> how everyone wants to add to what they think is wright,or wrong , so sit
> back for just a moment and think about what is being said, there is more
> than one way to do things,wich is the best way? draw a straw see if you
> win.
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