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Reinhard, this is EXACTLY the kind of thing that I would expect to see out a a TDI stroke. Another classic deep air death due to stupidity. Thanks for giving us the real story , instead of the crap that we always here from the deep air protectors. I could tell while I was translating that the exuses were flying in that report. The author repeatedly tried to dance around the subject of "experience" and "mixture", a dead giveaway. Everytime one of the TDI morons gets killed, the rest of the tribe of air addicts claims " he was not diving air", or " he had the right gas", " he had equipment problems". The problem is that he was a stroke, a moron, and was under the influence of the absolute worst example in diving who runs TDI. Chalk up another one for Gilliam's List. Reinhard Buchaly wrote: > > Adding some further information will give a better understanding of this > accident. I was not there but got the information from someone who was at > the scene. > > Dennis Sirven was diving with back-mounted air in doubles and a > 12-liter-cylinder of trimix-stage. He wanted to go deeper than the 110 mtr > point where Barnabe's left trimix cylinders have been. He expected to use > the gas in the cylinders which have been left there. But Barnabe's dive did > not go as planned. He could not stop his descent at 200 meters and > continued dropping, having difficulties to work his inflators due to > tremor. His reached depth was only estimated because his depth gauges did > not work that deep. This caused two things: he emptied his trimix bottles, > which were left at 110 meters, and the surface crew got confused about the > situation and his decompression profile. Probably the surface people would > have stopped Dennis Sirven doing something this stupid at midnight, if > there attention would not have been concentrated on Barnabe's dive > desaster. > Dennis Sirven was then confronted with Barnabe's empty trimix cylinder. > > Sorry, that this takes some of the "glory" of these dives, but I guess this > is something what you Americans would call a clusterfuck. > > Reinhard -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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