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Divers Supply feels they have been the butt of malicious intent on the Internet, as evidenced by their 2nd press release. As far as I can see, the bulk of the discussion was about how this dive could have been safer, and how other divers in the future can be prevented from falling victim to a needless death. Among Major issues for the future, which have been brought out in this incident: 1 If you do a tech dive, YOU HAVE A SAFETY DIVER Period. There is no excuse for no safety diver in the water at the point of the first scheduled stop---or within a few moments of this. 2. A diver's weight on the bottom needs to be calculated, prior to the dive---this means the exact gear config( including wet or dry suit) must have a known positive or negative buoyancy associated with it, and the lifting capacity of the diver's wings and backup must be known.....and a procedure for backup deployment must be known by each tech divers. 3. Gas choice and gas management for a student, by an instructor----in a teaching dive, supervision is expected and mandatory. In the event of a student running out of air, the instructor is responsible to solve the problem with his own gas supply, should the student's have been some how catastrophically lost----or not monitored by the instructor, and allowed to reach zero volume. The instructor / student relationship needs another definition session, as it relates to tech diving. 4. Stores need to be concerned about selling tech gear that has a high failure rate----just as an aircraft company may stop selling a line of jets if too many crash---or as Ford was forced to stop selling the Pinto. 5. Boats need a float ball to follow, in order for a safety diver to be effectively deployed at the proper time. If the tech divers are unable to pull the float ball, they are unable to complete a safe tech dive---since they will have no expectation of having a safety diver check them out on the first few deco stops. If these rules had been followed, we would not have 3 dead divers in WPB. Regards, Dan -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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