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Igge - can you find out for us what kind of "instructors" these guys
were, and what agency, svp? We need a good scorecard and body count for
year end. We already have a a clear frontrunner, but one never knows.


Ingemar Lundgren wrote:
> 
> Two divers, apparently Instructors died 2 weeks ago in Dahab, Sinai.
> They were found at between 80 and 100m of depth.
> The current trend in diving here in Europe seems to be deep Air and much
> of it, i think is thanks to Brett Gilliam and his so called training
> agency. Publishing books like deep diving, where if you read it, you get
> the impression that Trimix is unnecessary trouble and that deep air,  if
> you are mentally prepared and trained and all that bullshit could be
> done safely, is very dangerous. And he goes on in magazine articles with
> public statements like, only a few in the world can handle air at 90m is
> so stupid that i cant believe my eyes. We have a diving group here in
> Sweden called "dirty deep divers" that dives to 80m on air and sticks a
> name tag in the bottom, i mean what is this stupidity coming from.
> Someone must have a very bad influence on our sport and i think Gilliam
> has a large part of the blame. You may say that everyone has the right
> to shoot him self in the head, but promoting this dangerous activity as
> being safe is extremely irresponsible.
> 
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