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Wrolf, Just to clear up one point she was wearing a dry suit that she had just had been certified in about a week before. Marty Wrolf Courtney wrote: > KybrSose@ao*.co* wrote: > > > > Wrolf, > > > > I know you do tend not to hear the statements of George Irvine, due to a > > problem you have with his method of speaking, but he did state in a prior post > > to this list that he was unable to get Jane's wing to inflate due to the > > tension of the bungies causing the overpressure valve to fire and that this > > was witnessed both by Mr. Volker and Mr. Carmichael during the recovery, and > > that statements to this effect were given to the authorities. > > > > I doubt these three men would perjure themselves over the technical buoyancy > > compansator market. > > Thank you for reminding me of this. Except for reminding me of his > method of speaking. > > I have every reason to believe the veracity and honesty of two of these > men. > > So the "bondage" wings were unable to lift Jane off the bottom, several > days after > she was lost. > > She was presumably very negative on the hang (a bad thing), using a lot > of lift from the BC to acheive neutral buoyancy. > > With her wet suit, she would clearly have been more negative on the > bottom during her dive. Presumably she managed to achieve at least near > neutral buoyancy, as she was able to leave the bottom with no reported > problem. > > Now, in ascending from thirty to twenty feet, she would have needed to > dump some air. > > But at twenty feet, she suddenly lost her neutral buoyancy, going > negative,and heading down. > > So what happened at twenty feet? Did she dump some air, but the dump > valve stuck open? Did she fail to dump enough soon enough, and have the > overpressure go off and get stuck? What makes her all of a sudden > uncorrectably negative at twenty feet, when she was doing fine at thirty > and below, with more need for lift. > > If she was uncontrollably negative at twenty feet, then it does seem > reasonable that she could not be made neutral at depth, where wet suit > compression and (possible) lungs filling would have added to the lift > requirements of the BC further. > > -- > Wrolf > > Wrolf's Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf > > P.S. At the request of Ken Sallot <kens@ac*.ne*>, I am > "keep[ing] this shit off of Cavers." > > "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the > fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy > to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." > -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1927 > > "Thank you for your support" -- 1980s Bartles and James advertising > slogan. > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.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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