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Now it appears that the Medical Examiner, in his infinite wisdom,
called the boat operator in to analyze the gas in this accident . We
checked the gas pressures and showed them to the cops at the scene, but
they have "changed" since then.

   We also have a new story out of the boat people that the diver "hit
her head". This seems to have surfaced after the cops asked about the
cut on her head , but not in the original statements. In fact, the
original statements bear no semblance to the current ones.

   I hit her head effectively when I left her hooked to my Omer Sub and
put fifty pounds of lift on her while I went up to get a rope . The
upper current dragged the Omer about 100 feet, pulling the girl into a
pile of steel, headfirst. Volker saw this when we went back down. I had
to pick her up out of the steel with my scooter. Camichael saw her
undamaged on the bottom the first time.

  The fact is it makes no difference whether she hit her head, whether
her bondage wings failed, whether she breathed the wrong gas, whether
the communicator caused her to black out, whether she emolized, had a
heart attack, died of old age, or otherwise. What matters is that she
died, and she died on a training dive, and she died while her
"instructor" sat there, and she died in the company of the usual
suspects - Ocean Diving and the Reef Cat, and all Jim Mims had to say to
me was, "it would have been a long day for ( me ) without ( his ) help".
All I can say it would have been a long day having fun doing something
else, not cleaning up his mess .
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