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Dan Volker wrote: > > I am going to say this, regardless of the repercussions----Training > agencies, such as IANTD, CAN NOT continue to allow people to dive gear > configurations that are blatantly unsafe I have been trained by 3 iantd instructors, and while they allow personal preferences to dominate, they never let a diver in the water who is configured unsafely. ----and the concept of choosing a > configuration by "personal preference" has to be seen as "criminal", if > endorsed by a training agency. >In this case, the weight of the steel > tanks, combined with the lift destroying bondage wings, is so far from > acceptable it can NOT be allowed to happen again. Right. You were there and saw what happened. You know the all causes and cascade of events that occurred. You have not labeled your suspicions as speculations like everyone speculating has. Let's all wait for some facts. I hope the WKPP team gets some video of the bodies where they lay, as they lay, for real forensic purposes. I know that sometimes a dump valve toggle can get caught in the webbing of your harness if your not paying attention when you suit up. Video will still show this if it is there. After lifting the bodies, the 'crime' scene will have been destroyed, and the true answers may then ellude the questions we all have. > I will also say, that physical screening for tech diving must become > mandatory---- This is a good idea. the tech student exhibited symptoms on a 200 ft dive the day > before ( a very bad headache , which forced him to lie down after the > dive ) ---these symptoms could have indicated the existence of a PFO, Sounds to me if the guy had a headache this bad and reentered the water the next day then there are some judgement considerations to be looked at. Its possible that a poor medical evaluation may not have kept this diver out of the water. Still, lets wait for all the facts. >or > they may have just indicated that his grossly inadequate cardiovascular > system was not up to the CO2 processing job tech diving calls for---this > may have contributed to the heroic death of Detective John Claypool, who it > appears was safe at 100 feet after the dive end, but went back down to try > to help Andre and the student, when he realized Andre could not get the > student up. Please explain what you mean by this? > Dan Volker PS On a lighter note, nice web site. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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