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Jeff Hirschman wrote: > Conclusion: > A search was attempted on the bottom of the accident site on Thursday, > January 15th but was aborted due to weather conditions. An extensive search was conducted on the bottom > of the accident site on Saturday, January 17th. THE WKPP OFFERED TO DIVE THIS SITE ALL WEEK - HIRSHMAN LED US ON UNTIL LATE EACH NIGHT AND THEN CALLED IT OFF. HE CLAIMED A SUBMARINE WAS DOING IT, THAT THE SHERIFF SAID WE HAD TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY (THAT WAS BULL). WHEN WE FINALLY GAVE UP ON HIRSHMAN AND CHARTERED OUR OWN BOATS, DIVERS SUPPLY CALLED THEM ON THE PHONE AND THREATENED THEM WITH NO MORE BUSISNESS IF THE TOOK US OUT, AND THREATENED TO SUE OLD MAN FRANK AT FRANKS DIVE SHOP, AND THEN TREATENED ROBERT CARMICHAEL WITH A LAWSUIT IF HE CAME TO PALM BEACH AT ALL. We did it anyway, obvoiusly, and used the GPS marks to start our scan of the bottom. We ran one team of me, Robert and Errol for 8/10 mile at 250 with a 200 foot wide pattern ( easy with Gavin scooters, and the depth difference over 200 feet is from 260 to 220), and then ran a team of Ralph Fenton, Tony Martinez, and Dale ( from Voyager) after the first guys finished deco. On the second dive we started at the same spot as Minnow. On this dive, Ralph aborted, so Tony and Dale had to do it alone, slowing the search to only 6/10 of a mile, and complication it by the fact that we had to put a ball on Ralph while working the other divers. Had Divers Supply done the right thing to start wtih, we could have scoured the bottom . We needed the boats, we have the divers and the gear - they do not. We will continue to search this botttm for the next few miles when we can bring our own boats up there. We may not find anything, but we are going to try. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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