Look, the rebreather will be fine, if found. The problem is that the diver's
are dead, we cannot fix that, but we certainly should move to prevent this
from continuing at greater than Electrolung pace.

A few questions for Walter Starck:

How long was the traininig program for your machines?

Did you accept any one and everyone with cash into the program?

Did you allow units to be delivered without training?

How many second hand instructors where allowed in the first year or two?

If you had it to do over again, what would you change aside from any design
issues?

Questions for Martin Parker:

How many instructors are allowed to teach the INSPIRATION and what
qualifications where allegedly required to achieve this status?

How many of those are under the immediate supervision of your operation?

Of the three fatalities (and 2 near strikes), how many where trained
directly by Dave Thompson or where any two or more trained by the same
instructor?

Do you detect a trend related to training?

As I understand it, you have no concern about lawsuits, so I presume you are
at liberty to discuss these issue's.

Aside from simple respect for humanity, my intentions are to insure we have
the fundemental assets available to our industry which are required to grow
this NEW area of our sport. Funding is not possible without insurance,
insurance does not look good given our underwriters are in your backyard
reading your newspapers and not having any clue as to why my operating
system and trainign program varies significantly from others. To top this
off the stage is already set in several staeside suits involving other
systems/trainers. The HALCYON as well as other valid contenders, will be
painted with the same brush of "REBREATHER-UNACCEPTABLE RISK". The
alternative is to show that as a group we have learned and changed without
delay.

Whatever you want to call the problem I do not care. The fact is a cure is
required-immediately.


RMC
-----Original Message-----
From: Scatsta <scatsta@mc*.co*>
To: RLatulip@ao*.co* <RLatulip@ao*.co*>
Cc: will@tr*.co* <will@tr*.co*>; heseltine@ea*.ne*
<heseltine@ea*.ne*>; kirvine@sa*.ne* <kirvine@sa*.ne*>;
cavers@ca*.co* <cavers@ca*.co*>; techdiver@aquanaut.com
<techdiver@aquanaut.com>; rebreather@nw*.co*
<rebreather@nw*.co*>; heyydude@pi*.co* <heyydude@pi*.co*>
Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: Death was a Bigot


>RLatulip@ao*.co* wrote:
>
>>snip<
>>I do however mind when you attempt to tell me that it is perfect and
>> electronics never fail.  I bet that the last two divers to die on a
rebreather
>> thought the same thing. >snip<
>
>Er, have I missed something here? I pressume you are refering to the
>Inspiration accidents. The units from the last two fatalities have not
>been recovered so we can't say that the electronics failed.
>
>Regards
>
>Kevin Pickering
>kevpix@gl*.co*.uk*
>

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