On Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:31:52 -0400 (EDT), Spyro Papademetriou wrote:

>Sorry if you dont want this.
>
>
>Although he had before, Suarez did not breathe air at 300  on
>his LAST dive. He breathed his buddys trimix. 

Possibly breathed a gas which was not prepared or analyzed by himself,
or from equipment that he was not completely familiar with?

>This was
>a different mix than his. 

Please explain this statement.

>The Suarez accident was not a deep air death it
>was a dive that was not planned well and executed even worse. 

There is no excuse for this.  

>The tank
>profile (5 tanks - 3 on back & 2 on side) 

Please explain.  Are you inferring a set of twins with an argon bottle,
and two stages, or some other ridiculous configuration?

>and the fact that he swam at
>depth, because his scooter couldn't go deep enuf, 

Poor equipment choice.

>probably made him
>overexert himself(why you need to train) 
>probably causing him to think
>that his tank was empty(all mix tanks had enuf on the surface for gas at
>depth). 

Illogical thought process at a depth of 300 feet?  What mix was he
diving?

>Then the scotter than got stuck in the thrust mode. This happened
>during a dramatic depth change. The accident seems to have been a lung
>problem. Ed had suffered a sub pnemothorax in the late 60's.

Is this injury not contraindicated with diving?

Not to imply any disrespect whatsoever to the deceased, but it seems
from your account of the dive, that this person's self-inflicted
charlie foxtrot snowballed into a fatality.

-Sean


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