You said:

>The "analysis" is simple - don't dive deep on air, dive redunend gear in
>onverhead environments. Next case. You guys all want to be nice guys and
>make up nosense, the guy is dead, and we can learn from it.

George,

Agreed. I think there has been a degradation of diving analysis standards 
in the cave community in recent years which has also lead to a laxity in 
diving protocols. The wide availability of instruction for anyone has 
been both a blessing and a curse. A blessing in that there is no longer 
any reason (at least in FL) for a diver to venture into a cave untrained. 
A curse in that any jerk that wants to be a "bad-assed" caver can get a 
ticket and get killed--not that this is what happened in Parker's case, 
of course. The standards and methodology for instruction have not kept 
pace with the fast expansion of technical diving in the last few years. 
Along with that popularity has come some pretty strange ideas about gear, 
scootering and deep diving on air.

Later,

JoeL
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