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>Dan, >You have flipped out. Your instructor was probably a lot like Derek or any >other. No Way. ZERO similarity. >Do you want to teach. No . Its not what I want out of diving. But, if someone was buddied to me, you can believe I would be with them, helping them, if they were in trouble. If my buddy was signalling me they were out of deco gas, my reg would be in their mouth before they finished the signal. If I saw a buddy heading down, during our ascent and deco stops, I'd be on him/her so fast they would never be able to hit bottom. Ask George if I can out-swim a sinking body---I can out swim a gavin scooter. Why? Because I train. T-R-A-I-N.... That's part of the kind of diving we do. And that's another reason I have no sympathy for Derrick. He talked the talk, but clearly did not train for the job. If so, given the same scenario you would also >be dead too from trying to fight a 2 kt current while traveling the distance >to make a find in 10-20' vis at 260', and recover it, lift it, and live. Jim, this is the biggest BS I have heard yet. At 40 feet, the current would have stopped pulling on either of them after dropping about another 30 feet---through the 150 foot vis that they admitted in the entire upper water collumn, right down to near the bottom. The few seconds of drift in the current would cause insignificant horizontal separation, as they would have both been in the same current. Jesus this is a bullshit statement! Current was NOT an issue on her potential rescue as she sank. On the bottom there was only the tiniest of currents---at least by palm Beach standards---if Derrick or his guys told you the current was big---they need remedial fin swimming 101 and freedive fins, or they need to buy Gavoin Scooters. As for surviving, Jim, we use an invention known as a "PRESSURE GUAGE'. It allows us to stay down untill a minimal amount of gas is left in the tanks---but we are alerted to this by the guage---by just looking at it. Derrick could have spent considerable time at depth, and headed up abruptly, on getting low on gas. But he opted not to try. You have already told me you would have gone down in the same situation. Tom Mount would have gone down in the same situation. Anyone I know I have ever had as a dive buddy would have. Except of course, none of us would have let it get that far, since we would have been buddy breathing her from the moment of her initial signalling about being out of gas. Do not compare Derrick to any of us, and do not compare him to even yourself---as your reputation and ability is in sharp contrast to his. Damage control is over Jim. Jane's dead. Its time for you to start futhering the future of the sport, by eliminating scenarios like this in the future. Its time to "dump" the garbage. Put him where he belongs, and shut the lid before the stink gets out and starts to stick to your clothes!!! Dan Volker -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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