Sender: Christina Young  Date: 8/6/98 12:57 PM

>
>Mr. Irving, please give us the names of these "usual cast of
>characters", and explain how, specifically, they contributed to the
>three deaths that occurred on the Andrea Doria this year.

Don't make me send you the "who" list of techdiver.

>Capt. Danny Crowell and the crew of the Seeker is the best and most
>professional of any dive boat I have ever seen, with the absolute best
>top-side support for deep diving operations.  If I ever had an
>in-water emergency, they are the ones that I would want to be there.

He's also very good at providing a steady stream of stiffs to illustrate 
the drawbacks of "doing it wrong".

>Please also explain how the crew back on the boat could have prevented
>the diver (down in the wreck) that died this week from rejecting his
>buddy's regulator in blind panic and selecting the absolute worst
>option, the O2 regulator.

Um, not let him in the water in the first place?

I understand that this guy and his buddies were black-balled from several 
other diveboats in the region, the Seeker being the only one who would 
take them to the Doria.

>Otherwise, we will just chalk up another one to the libelous crap that
>you spew forth.

Since when is the truth a liability? Oh, you must be a democrat.

>Christina Young

I think if I was running a boat going to the 'Doria up there, I would 
demand that the divers use the DIR system. In this case if the guy was 
DIR, he would have noticed that his isolator was closed because his 
pressure would have not shown as dropping on his gauge. And even if he 
fucked that up, his O2 bottle would have been turned off to keep him from 
accidentally sucking on it at depth.

What is it that's too hard to understand about the DIR system? This guy 
would be alive today if he was using it. But no, people are still 
fiddling while Rome burns.

 Jim



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