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<html> Dan<br> This is the first sentence and post on the death of Jane made by you.<br> <br> Sun, 3 May 1998 22:48:37 -0400<br> <font face=3D"Courier New, Courier">Last night I had a terrible call from a friend of mine who is a freediver.<br> His girlfriend Jane, who was on her first trimix training dive in the ocean,<br> had not made it back to the surface. He asked that George Irvine , Robert<br> Carmichael and I do a search and recovery as soon as possible.<br> <br> Dan<br> </font>My question is this:<br> If you are unable to save your friends loved ones from bad instructors and stroke gear <br> What makes you think you can save strangers on this list,if Wrolf is wrong teach him,to slap him in the face he will only fight back.I am not blaming you for her death,only pointing out that even people we know are hard to reach.<br> <br> Capt. JT><br> ><br> ><br> >I have personally been involved in body recoveries for 4 technical divers in<br> >the last 8 months. In each case, the deaths occurred largely due to<br> >misdirection which has allowed these people to believe that their own gear<br> >configurations and proceedures were fine. The bondage wings, the 4 steel<br> >98's with wetsuits, the lack of real Buddy team training, this and much more<br> >are all major violations of common sense, things we have been addressing for<br> >ages now. Wrolf is blocking this message with his misdirections---maybe not<br> >to you, but certainly, he is going to be responsible for temporarily slowing<br> >DIR acceptance by several new tech divers---since they are already tech<br> >diving, and since tech divers are dying right now, every month, I'd say this<br> >is an important, life threatening issue.<br> ><br> >Wrolf has no knowledge base or experience in tech diving that justifies his<br> >participating in a discussion in which the outcome may influence whether<br> >people will live or die. Just because you realize this, is in no way an<br> >indication it is obvious to all others. I had a reporter from the NY Daily<br> >News call me on the phone yesterday, about a story he is doing on the Andria<br> >Doria. To him---and by extension, the public at large, Wrolf has a voice<br> >equal to George, to you, to me, to Zero,=A0 or to Bill Mee, basically, to the<br> >reporter, there is no discrimination as to what opinions are "better". The<br> >public will hear both sides of any arguement, and think each side must be<br> >valid. Insurers may just come to believe diving deep is dangerous, and not<br> >grasp that safer deep diving exists---but that it is done differently. They<br> >will see only a huge rising death toll, and no agreement by any of us on why<br> >the deaths are increasing.<br> >I know for a fact insurance underwriters ARE reading tech diver posts---I<br> >have this from absolutely reliable inside the industry information. While<br> >this is bad, the chance of a new tech diver dying two weeks from now,<br> >because=A0 he=A0 wore a heavy wet suit and bondage wings , is still a real<br> >threat----one that posts by Wrolf will contribute to---and this is much<br> <BR> </html> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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