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Pat, this is the kind of mindless crap that the strokes teach. I
remember this incident, and I remember arguing that only a real moron
would dive other than his deepest gas on his back - a card carrying,
farm animal stupid, bonified TDI stroke. The preocupation with depth is
another trademark of the stroke - depth is something we bring up to us,
and we call that process "technical diving". Diving deep on air is for
idiots like the Stooges who need to spend full time trying to impress
people.

 Let's get all of these names and get them on the list. The list will be
the force that offsets the Stooges, and the other strokes out there.



PDuffy wrote:
> 
> George,
> 
> Approximately two years ago a diver out here (CA) dove air to 250' and
> switched to a 72cf of mix with intentions to break his personal depth
> record, he seemed to have used the mix up quite quickly (equipment
> inspection showed mix bottle was empty).  We assume he shifted over to
> air again on the bottom after using up his mix.  His maximum depth was
> 311' and his computer showed a total dive time of 11 minutes.
> 
> A non-diver on the boat witnessed his arival to the surface due to the
> noise as he flew out of the water.  He was diving with a faulty drysuit
> valve and had it closed.  The coroner noted that he had contusions to
> the back of his head, likely due to a convulsion.
> 
> He was a Padi Instrutor and full cave certified.  He had no other
> technical training outside of cave and had done a number of dives
> exceeding sport limits.
> 
> The whole dive was a CF.  His buddies decided not to dive mix and only
> wanted to only go to 200' on air.  They followed him to 250' on air,
> watched him switch gases and never saw him alive again.  The plan was a
> bounce dive for a depth record ... it was both.
> 
> I forget his name, but will get it to add to the list.
> 
> Patrick Duffy
> 
> G. Irvine wrote:
> >
> > OSTDIVE, and everyone else, could you all please forward us ( me and
> > Kenny ) the names of any deep air dead you know of.
> >
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