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Tim: As a general rule, the divers doing stupid things won't listen. If that student were your brother or son you would wish that someone pointed out that something was incorrect. Instead everyone gets caught up in saying they should have, would have and could have. So now there are three people DEAD. Got it D-E-A-D!!! They are not comming back. The stupidity here is the consistent failure to acurately disclose the truth when these things happen, thereby making it difficult or impossible to reap the only benefit available, knowledge. If we don't learn from this we only amplify the waste of human life. Since keeping things quiet obviously is not working, perhaps we need to use the media to stop the accidents. Putting things in the public eye will force all of us to step back and take a second look at our actions. While I full well realize that you may only be concerned with your own immediate needs and interests, the media generated publicity might prevent another such accident. Most of us would gladly accept the inconvenience of having to adhere to a set of rules re our Helium to return the three lives lost. Perhaps you should rethink your position concerning who or what is FAS since reduced to its simplest terms, a trusting individual paid to get instruction at a dive store, go out on a boat, do a dive and die. This needs to be examined. Joe Citelli Tim Olson wrote: > > > Predictably, we are now beginning to observe the inevitable fallout from > > the single worst technical diving accident, ever. Independently, one of > > the largest gas suppliers in the Southeast, Tri-Gas, has reported that > > they are considering a total ban on the sale of Helium and other gases > > for the purpose of diving. This, they say, is a direct result of > > liability issues raised following the well publicized WPB tragedy. > > Leave it to Irvine to publicize things until they are banned for > everyone. The fallout falls on us all. If only all the IDIOTS > who go on TELEVISION publicizing all this crap would just shut > their little midget pip-squeak mouths when talking to the GENERAL > PUBLIC, maybe things like this wouldn't happen. > > While I agree with many (most) of his safety concepts, anyone > who would TRY to publicize diving accidents to the general > public and TRY TO INVOKE LITIGATION definately earns > the "Farm-Animal-Stupid" badge. Slam and preach all you want > if you have divers listening, but when you speak to the general > public, you have to realize that most people find the simple > idea of a 20' scuba dive to be "daring", so if you publicize > the accidents that happen deep diving, you will of course > bring about these types of problems. > > Learn a lesson, Irvine you idiot! > > Tim Olson > > -- > 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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