All, when I found this girl after 15 minutes of scootering wide open
at 260, she had 3300 in one stage, 2000 in the other, nothing but water
in her back tanks ( making her unliftable with my 50 pound bag ),
NON-FUNTIONAL BONDAGE WINGS ( the bungees would not allow me to inflate
the wings with my own gas, and the inflator was losing almost as much
gas as it was supplied with - this may have been the beginning of her
problem). She has a ridiculous "tech" bc on, kind of a transformer pack
immitation - a real piece of bullshit to say the least. She had her
ridiculous dive tables in one hand, her non-working BONDAGE WING
inflator in the other. How many times do we have to go over the bondage
wing problems?

 Some blithering idiot had attached some kind of dive communication
stupidity to every regulator on her except the back up main, and the
main was laying with her mask right by her head upside down with the
dive com thing laying beside it, so looked like it had dumped the
contents of her GENESIS 100's - here we go again- allowing them to fill
with water. The regs had come slightly loose from the manifold , as dins
do when unpressured in water like that, and she had every manner and
piece of dive shop monkeeism that could be fit onto one credit card on
her dead person.

 I am a very good diver, and I personally could not have dove with that
collection of bullshit she had going, but then this was her FIRST trimix
dive, so what do I know? I can not tell you how many of these dives I
have done, and the two I did today, back to back, were my 18th and 19th
trying to clean up IANTD stupidity. I call that series of 19 my  "tech
training" dives - maybe that idiot Mount will give me a card as an IANTD
instructor cleanup specialist.

 The stage bottles she was wearing had NO MARKINGS what so ever as to
MOD or contents, or any evidence of analysis. Just the usual IANTD
bullshit "nitrox" banner, but then Tom Mount  can tell us all what gas
goes on what side, and what color reg goes with it, etc. I can not tell
all of you how sick I am of this kind of stupidity , and the results
thereof. I suggest these people finally take the cotton out of their
ears, and stick it in thier battleship mouths, or I will do it for them
on every last tiny little point, and I have the authority of the track
record to do just that. 

 Any asshole knows what happens when you breath through a dead space  .
Every one of this idiots had the com devices on their gear. Maybe Tom
can tell us how to share gas with that? How about it? Any coments, or do
you have any clue at all just how stupid this is, and how much of a
violation of any standards, let alone common sense, this is? How many
omore of thes incompetenet idiots do you have out here, other than the
fifty or so I could name off the top of my head?

 Not being able to lift bag the body or inflate it ( I did not want to
try it with her drysuit), Robert attached our float line to her, and we
went up to get a rope, rather than risk losing her in the moving water
column. We were at a spot on the bottom we recognized and could easily
get back to - I could see the anchor chain of the RB Johnson in the
distance coming of the bow. 

 We decoed out on the short version, but had really not come prepared to
dive twice. I was using my tanks from a dive in Big Dismal the day
before ( luckily I was mixed for 300 on that dive), and a half full 40
cubic foot 50/50 from my last body recovery dive, as well as 20 cu ft of
oxygen in a thirty aluminum from that same dive where I had not used the
oxygen to deco ( bad for the vital capacity).

 I still had a good 1500 in the doubles, and Robert had 1000 in his 40
aluminum oxygen, so I took that. Dan Volker geared up with a special
lift bag and a bottle to inflate it, and we jumped again immediately,
drifting into the bow of the wreck and then scootering to where we had
left her. She had moved, but we could se the tank tracks in the sand,
and found her again. This time, I was pulling 500 feet of half inch
nylon which we had doubled back on the surface moving down current with
a giant float attached. We had her rigged and moved away from the wreck
before the line came tight. I surfaced to tell the cops to pull her up
and then went back to deco.

  We again decoed out on the short version, only Dan and I both used the
same deco gas and still came up with room to spare in Robert's tank, and
I managed to wolf down an entire 400 psi on the second dive from my back
tanks, having started the dive with the same psi in these tanks that the
heroes of tech diving, the INSTRUCTORS, could not manage to do a drop to
a measly 260 feet with to save a life using larger tanks. This was the
third dive to 260 on these tanks ( two ocean , one cave ).

  We were back at the police dock with the body before the other group,
the ones who precipitaed the accident, got through doing their huge
weenie deco fronm their tiny bounce dive where they covered no ground
and got nothing done, because they are clueless incompetents who have no
business teaching diving to anyone.

  I think I mentioned a few days ago that you should never dive wtih any
one who is afraid of deco - they will not save you. Let me reitterate -
please, if you are planning on taking diving, call and find out who to
avoid before you or your loved ones get killed. We will be glad to tell
you. Again we hav a situation of instruction by another one day wonder
who has never in his life done a real dive, but then his agency is run
by a huge battleship mouth who has never done a real dive in his life
either, and proves it every time he opens that battleship mouth.

 I can not tell you the horror of scooter up on a dead body, and seeing
the crabs eathing it. Trust me, if I could have been transported at that
moment to North Miami with a gun in my hand, I would have blown Tom
Mount's head clean off, but then he has just about done that now to
himself, IANTD, and tech diving in general.
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