OK, hotmail, I give up. You are right, there is nothing wrong with 
teaching deepair. What a fool I was to think this. There is nothing wrong 
with this, nobody's died from deepair. All these deaths were from bad 
luck. 

TDI is completely absolved of anything that has to do with divers dying 
from deepair, mailorder cards, 1 day rebreather courses, instructor wah 
wah dives. Rob Palmer had a heart attack.

Narcosis can be overcome by practice. Air is great down to 240'. Trimix 
is expensive waste of money, only good for 500' dives. You're right. I'm 
wrong. I think I'll go out and sign up for a TDI deepair course today. I 
understand the buzz is great.

   Jim

On 1/22/98 9:01 AM roger steele wrote:

>Forgive me for not understanding your post.  Your lucid argumentation is 
>sometimes overwhelming. However, my question remains unanswered by you.  
>TDI was founded in 1994.  The dead list is irrelevant to TDI's 
>responsibility towards those deaths.  95% of the ones you have mentioned 
>happened well before 1994.  (Several of the names that are last on the 
>list do not have dates listed.  Also, one of the names on the list, 
>Sheck Exley, did not die on deep air, he died using mixed gas, as a am 
>sure most of the people on this e-mail list are well aware.  Therefore, 
>you should strike his name off the list.  This raises another issue 
>concerning the reliability of your list. Please provide me with the 
>details of these deaths ie. . .  What were the circumstances of each 
>accident, were all of them in fact diving air?)  You would be hard 
>pressed to convince anyone that TDI's unsafe dive instruction is 
>responsible for deaths happening in the 1960's.  If you think this is 
>indeed the case, please present your logical arguments so that I also 
>can be convinced.  Remember, my question is show me the statistical 
>correlation between scuba diving deaths and TDI certification.  In your 
>comments I see nothing that is relevant to this question. Let me be as 
>clear as possible, in the list that you have provided me, how many are 
>TDI certified?  Of the ones that are certified, (if there are any) how 
>many of these deaths can you directly attribute to TDI's unsafe diving 
>instuction?  Please respond with factual statistics. 


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