If one of us had someone we really did not like, that we really hated, and
we managed to convince them to get scuba instruction from Derrick----- and
if their "accidental death" ensued under Derrick's "watchful care".....,
would we have just been involved in a conspiracy to commit murder???


If any instructor out there  has sent a student to Derrick---how much
complicity should they feel???

And if a dive boat  takes Derrick out, with the knowledge of  Derrick's
entire want of care,  and his conscious indifference to the consequences of
his actions..... would the dive boat become a party  and participant to
further acts of culpable negligent manslaughter by Derrick, should he happen
to engage  in this behavior  the next time he takes students out on their
boat---or the next time he has been in any way responsible for their gear or
dive knowledge???

These are not trivial questions.  IANTD wheels of justice are moving, but
old age may well out pace them. Derrick may well be on his  third and fourth
versions of the "truth" as he remembers it.  Several versions  later, he may
appear to have "risked his life in a frantic search along the bottom for
Jane, even though he only had 1500 psi in his back gas"....., but he has
many "versions" left, before he can deviate that far from the truth.  As of
now, we may still wonder what threat he may represent, to an unknowing dive
public.

And  as  Derrick  steadies himself and his IANTD directorate of supporters,
in his own mind, he has become the self righteous, and the oppressed, and
would rally others to let the system decide, to let a proper BOA of IANTD,
handle this with the "extreme prejudice" they are "known" for.  As Derrick
lives the good life, safe within the dry confines of his dive shop in Fort
Lauderdale,  he  lives  at the expense of the dead.



There is no denial that he watched her sink to her death. No other facts can
be brought out that can mitigate this "lack of action".  There is no denial
he had her diving with stage bottles with  no visible markings. And there is
no denial that she was breathing the wrong mix as a result of Derrick's
training and gear configuration, and without the benefit of an instructor to
watch over her and catch this mistake---all she had was Derrick. .  Any
thing else which comes from further study, will not contradict the primary
facts, as just stated.
Dan Volker



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