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Susan, the operative information is that there was a cluster at depth, and three people are missing presumed dead. All of the families are here. Appears to be an overweighting of the student using steel stages and back tanks with a wetsuit, and then a panic and an out of gas, a breathing of one of the deco gases at the bottom, and a struggle, maybe a tox, a fourth diver got low on gas and went up to deco, the third one came back down to help ( this was the cop), and the lift bag of the instructor popped to the surface with the reel attached, no divers. The survivor did 250 for 15,bounced back and forth up and down from the bottom in the cluster, left the bottom at 28 minutes, and then 130 of deco . The boat followed him, they had the problem at 4:00 - sunset at 5:50. The CG, and Sheriff et al had planes, cutters, boats, etc, and searched everywhere, found nothing. Then the stupidity really got rolling. These guys came up with a sub that was supposed to do the recovery, and the moron at the dive shop told me that the "sub has arms". This obviously never happened. Then he told me that the Sheriff told him I could not dive. I called the Sheriff, the Sheiff told me that was "bullshit". This went back and forth now for three days, we are all mixed and ready to dive ( we did that right away), and now the sub is back in action, and the boat who presided over this in the first place will not take us tomorow because they are tending the sub, which is supposed to know what they are doing, but claerly do not have the personell if they are using the local dive shop strokes. We are making our own arrangements, bringing our own boats, and doing it ourselves on Saturday. These bodies need to be found or the surviving wife of the cop will go through hell with getting her husband declared dead, as will the others, but I do not know their family details. The dive shop morons who bungled this should be taken out and shot, but they are no longer fooling anyone. susan m. innes wrote: > > For those of us up in here cotton land - does anyone know anymore on the > accident. > > I was told the instructor was IANTD but have heard no names etc. Is this > because they are trying to still tell his relatives or is it a secret. What > class was it? > Any info on the student's diving background? What gear was being used? Thanks > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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