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> But Tim, are you here suggesting that this incident should be SWEPT > UNDER THE PROVERBIAL CARPET? > No, in fact. There are many mistakes being made in regards to this accident. First and foremost are some of the diving and instruction practices that cause the accidents. It is extremely important that we take the time to analyze this type of incident, and discuss it in our forum and with other divers. George has many great lessons to teach divers, that's not the point. Also among the mistakes being made is sensationalism of this and any diving accident. When you tell Joe Public about such incidents, nobody cares if the guy was 20' or 320' deep, they see it simply as a diving accident. Then diving and diving eqiupment gets regulated and/or banned. This can be a big problem, for many reasons. #1. If a diving practice is banned, nobody will teach it, and you know that no matter what happens, people will still get into deep diving....we want them trained, not doing it on their own. #2. We've all been going back and forth about DEEP AIR. It seems to me that the harder it is to get HELIUM!, the more you will see people resorting to DEEP AIR diving. Now I don't care how "Orwellian" the concept of discretion is, but I think that we should be spreading the teachings and info. from incidents like these among those who it APPLIES to. Almost EVERYTHING that happens in the news gets FAR too much publicity these days. Look at the Kennedy skiing death. Big fucking deal....they did something stupid...their fault. Still, it's just one more nail in the coffin for the sport of skiing, and everyone involved in providing equipment and services. Do you think the ski hill and equipment companies don't shiver a bit when something like that happens? Why put things on the NEWS when there is FEWER THAN 2% of the population that this accident could teach anything to.....much less than that if you only count those who would tech-dive. It only hurts us all. We have a great forum here on Techdiver. DEMA is going on. There are newsgroups and dive shops. These are the people and those are the places where the information is appropriate. I don't know what the situation is in Florida, but I would imagine that you folks would want to keep the publicity down as much as possible....and that DOESN'T mean withhold information where appropriate. If you lose a helium supply for diving, you WILL see more people doing it "wrong" and the deaths will go up. We worked hard to get to the point where people would accept Trimix, why jeopardize that. The families of the dead don't benefit from the publicity either. If you note, NONE of this has anything to do with wether or not the diving practices were good or bad. When I read the account of the accident, I saw many flaws too, and I forwarded on the mail to others who dive. DIVERS need to learn from this, but not the entire population....to them it's just another example of how stupid a person is to go diving, and another reason why people shouldn't be allowed to dive in their local lake/spring/quarry/cave. I only pick on Irvine because he has an inability it seems to speak in the appropriate forum, and because he has a personal vendetta against anyone who makes a mistake and tries to get people SUED. Doesn't do anyone a bit of good....just get the facts out to those who need to know. Tim -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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