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You forgot Missavage was in a TDI DA class at the time and also there was the South African incident. I know were forgetting several others. At 01:04 PM 2/9/98 -0500, Jim Cobb wrote: >Roger- > >Deaths, deaths everywhere. I love this thread, it's such good copy for >TDI. How long are you going to drag it on, goose boy? > >Rob Palmer: TDI Cause of Death: Deep air contributed to or directly >caused: > >Rob Parker: TDI Cause of Death: Deep Air contributed to or directly >caused: > >Dennis Sirven: TDI Cause of Death: Deep Air complicated by >intocxication with alcohol and marijuana > >Douglas Missavage: TDI Cause of Death: Deep Air contributed to or >directly caused > >A rebreather training death in Hawaii (I don't know the name of the >individual however a lawsuit is now pending.) > >And now a new person to add to the list involving a TDI shop in >Australia, in a breaking story: > >On Saturday January 31, five divers from Newcastle >just north of Sydney, dived on the Advance, a sunken >collier at 48 metres (158 ft). > >All five dived independently. Bottom time was approx 20 >minutes. Only four surfaced. > >After 90 minutes the surviving divers re-descended to >look for the missing diver. They found him on the bottom, >dead. > >In a typical deep-air clusterfuck, the divers were unable >to figure out how to raise his body - get gas into his bc >or release his weight belt. So they decided to cut the >weightbelt off him with a diving knife. In doing so, they >managed to put some stab wounds into the corpse. > >The dead diver was an American living in Newcastle. He >went diving with the Newcastle Cave & Tech Dive Shop at >Swansea. Until the coroners report is in, it isn't known >whether his death adds to the horrible deep air tally of >the past year, or was due to some kind of illness. > >But one thing is apparent. Only deep air could turn a >simple body recovery into a horrible fuck-up like this. > >Roger, how about it if this was YOUR cold, stiff corpse floating on the >bottom of some godforsaken quarry. A bunch of narced idiots stabbing you >through to cut off your weight belt? How can you promote this shit? > > Jim > >On 2/9/98 11:46 AM roger steele wrote: > >>Oh my Gosh. The word is out. First, please don't hurt me. Your >>posting leads me to believe that you are aggrevated with me. I'm sorry. >>Please, be nice, I'm only a neophyte. Now, lets continue. First, Your >>posting of 5 out of 8 deaths is impressive, except for one thing. You >>do not support these statistics with the agency that compiled them. You >>see, it is hard for me just to "take your word for it" when your >>postings are of this nature. You see, ad hominem attacks do not impress >>me. Your posting is nothing more than this. Please, give me the source >>of this information. I know that you have it. Is it DAN, or another >>organization? You see, The Cobber man told me one time that this >>information does not exist or it is next to impossible to get. Check >>the archives. You obviously have this information. Share your source >>with me and the rest of the list. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html > > >-- >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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