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Tom I have a lot of questions, but I will limit my self here. #1 the laywer I was refering to yesterday was in court so I was not able to get a hold of him. But from conversations I have had with derik and his employes before the accident, derik is a PDIC instructor. in fact they were planning to send one of the employes to a padi crossover in order to have a padi instructor on staff. currently they are using a instructor from coral reef scuba to sign off any student who wants a padi not pdic cert you said >but Dan, you have some wrong facts Derrick has been a PADI instructor for >several years #2 I read Bill Mees post last night (it was very PAINFUL) but I will ask one of the questions I had from it. derik call me on my cell phone last wed and wanted to know why I did not defend him, he then wanted to know how everyone got the facts of the dive sunday morn when we recovered Jane, he also wanted to know why I did not tell the whole story. I did, in fact if you will ask the wkpp rescue team you will find out that when giving them the facts I did not deveate from or speculate on what I had been told, remember I had only one goal- recover Jane. he then proceded to tell version # 3 to me. #3 is very different than #1. in a nutshell #3 goes like this- dive is ongoing no problems, at 276' on of the other divers does not like the conditions and wants to quit, team is gathered and up they come. no problems untill 40' at which time Jane signals she is having difficulty breathing or is out of air (sidenote- derik has run out of air and has had to buddy breath off Jane on a prior dive, derik knew she never ran out of air) so in this version he now grabs her 80% and hands it to her, tells her to switch over, she does, he then grabs her taking her to 30'. at this point Jane is suddenlly at 20' and he does not know how she got their as he has that tangled up down line/reel to mess with. next thing he see she is at 50' or 60' and "dropping fast" George is trying to swim after her at 100' George aborts do to a real bad block. (he has a nose bleed for hours after this.) derik decides he needs to stay with the group ( #1a pdic,iantd instructor, #2 a padi divemaster, iantd?, #3 a padi divemaster, iantd?) and watch over them Janes bubbles come up for two more minutes and then stop. ( he tells me on the phone that sat as I am racing to the shop he thinks she is on the surface I get a private plane up from under the air show and have them start looking) their is more but now for my question about an iantd instructor. #3 does he know what o2 tox is ? what are the signs and symptoms, is he to be able to recognize them, does he teach others to have that knowledge? #4 he says he grabs her 80% and takes Jane to 30' - doesn't he know which gas is on what side or was he to be able to read the tank markings that were non-existant I quote Bills post for you here again Jane, as you may recall, perished recently during a socalled "technical training" dive when her IANTD instructor, Derek McNulty, chose not to attempt a rescue as she drifted to bottom in 270fsw, following an apparent loss of consciousness. Jane was carrying two deco stage bottles. According to the coroner one bottle contained 3300 psi of EANX 35 and the other bottle contained 1900 psi of EANX 80. Based on the time the divers were on deco as well as the neatly parked state of the regulator on the EANX 35 bottle, observed by George Irvine, Robert Carmichael and Dan Volker on initial discovery, the 80/20 bottle, more than likely, had been the one breathed. The bottles were unmarked with either MOD or gas analysis at the time of her post mortem recovery. Tom, I for one have a lot more questionsbut lets just start wth the above. Alan Pelstring -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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