Where was the dive buddy who should have been saving this man's life? How much more dangerous than recreational diving is cave/wreck/tech diving? And yet people who won't dive without a buddy are what - strokes? ---Kevin Pickering <kevpix@gl*.co*.uk*> wrote: > > I posted the following to UK diver newsgroups last week. As Paul was an occasional contributer to these lists it was suggested that I copy the post to Techdiver/Cavers. > > >>I,m sad to inform you that the diver who was lost on Saturday 23 May was Paul > Haydon from Essex UK. > > He was diving the Afric which is 77m to the seabed, low water. > > An unsuccessful search of the rear half of the Afric was carried out on > Sunday. > > Teresa and I found him yesterday (Monday 25 May) at approx' 1530, in the fwd half > of the wreck at 72m. We attached lift bags and sent him to the surface, > where he was recovered by a police RIB. > > We could not see any obvious cause of death. > > > A fund has been set up to help pay for funeral and legal costs. > > As many of you knew Paul and may wish to make a contribution then please do so via; > > Peter Beeson > 82 Osborne Rd, > Hornchurch, > Essex, > RH11 1HE > Tel. 01708 454127 > > Kevin Pickering > Teresa Telus << > > <HR> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>I posted the following to UK diver newsgroups last week. As Paul was an occasional contributer to these lists it was suggested that I copy the post to Techdiver/Cavers.</FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>>>I,m sad to inform you that the diver who was lost on Saturday 23 May was Paul<BR>Haydon from Essex UK.<BR><BR>He was diving the Afric which is 77m to the seabed, low water. <BR><BR>An unsuccessful search of the rear half of the Afric was carried out on<BR>Sunday.<BR><BR>Teresa and I found him yesterday (Monday 25 May) at approx' 1530, in the fwd half<BR>of the wreck at 72m. We attached lift bags and sent him to the surface,<BR>where he was recovered by a police RIB.<BR><BR>We could not see any obvious cause of death.<BR><BR> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>A fund has been set up to help pay for funeral and legal costs.</FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3></FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>As many of you knew Paul and may wish to make a contribution then please do so via;</FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3></FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>Peter Beeson</FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>82 Osborne Rd,</FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3></FONT></FONT><FONT size=3>Hornchurch,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Essex,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>RH11 1HE</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Tel. 01708 454127 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Kevin Pickering</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Teresa Telus <<</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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