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ChuckAt 07:47 PM 7/10/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>Gentlemen,
>
> A dive boat and crew is usually much more than a taxi to the dive site.
>It is a support resource - a necessarily mobile plaform providing a much
>needed point of refference, base of operations, storage for excess and
>emergency equipment, communications platform, and place of refuge on the open
>sea.
This is true,if a dive boat cannot preform these tasks they should not be a
dive boat.
As conditions worsen and dive complexity
>increase the role of the vessel becomes more vital.
>
This is where local knowledge of seas,currents,and sites are the Captains
call on a dive as he should know what to expect and always the unexpected.
>
> I was part of a team of 4 divers saparated and drifting after a dive on a
>deep wreck from Jim Mim's boat last year. We were scattered to the four
>winds and one of us had lost all his lift bags and was drifting with no
>surface marker (50 minutes of deco). Jim not only kept track of each of us
>but made sure we each knew that he was aware of out position by running the
>boat around our bag or bubbles to signal his presence. No worries about
>being lost or abandoned.
> This is the kind of performance that separates the men from the boys on
the
>topside team and I assure you it makes all the difference in the world when
>all the chips have yet to land and the stakes are high.
>
So lets change this out come,then you tell me what you think.What if Jim
were unable to locate the diver that did not have a liftbag.The diver is
never found.The capt. will always carry the blame for having lost a
diver,when infact you have 4 divers that did not follow the plan.More
people will remeber the name of the boat and not the diver that was
lost.Sounds to me like you owe Capt.Jim Mimms and crew I hope you tip well.
After some of the harsh things said about Capt.Jim in the Jane Ornstein
death,its good to hear something like this.
>
Capt.J.T.
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