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[sorry - I stuffed up with the sending of the last bit of mail.
below is the mail I intended to send]
I just read on the bit.listserv.scuba-l group that Bill Mayne died
while cave diving on Friday last week. I only knew Bill over the net,
and we had been regular correspondents on cave diving. Ironically
we first made contact when he supplied me with information about the
death of one of my friends in a Florida cave diving accident.
I, for one, will sadly miss him.
If anyone knows of any more details regarding this accident, could you
please forward them to me. I would be particularly interested in any
reports from the NSS or NACD.
Greg Ryan gregr@cs*.su*.oz*.au*
I've included below a newspaper report which Joe Clark <jclark@ma*.fs*.ed*>
posted to bit.listserv.scuba-l:
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The following is reprinted without permission from the Tallahassee Democrat,
7/19, B1:
The bodies of two cave divers were recovered Sunday afternoon,
ending two days of searching at a sinkhole in Wakulla County....
According to (the Sheriff's Dept.), one of the bodies at Clearcut
Sink was identified as Bill Mayne, 39, of Tallahassee....the (second)
unidentified victim was a 29-year-old student at Florida State University.
"We're still investigating the case, and the divers' equipment will
be examined. We're also waiting on autopsies," (a spokesman) said. "When
we find out further information, we will be able to comment more."
Autopsies are scheduled for this morning at Tallahassee Memorial
Regional Medical Center.
Officials said both victims at Clearcut Sink had recently received
their certification as cave divers. They had been expected to return from a
diving expedition at 10:30 pm on Friday.
When neither of the divers returned Friday night, a relative
of Mayne's called the Leon County Sheriff's Dept....
Teams of divers, including volunteers, began searching for the two
victims at Clearcut Sink at 10:30 am Saturday and continued until 8 pm.
The search resumed at 9 am Sunday, and divers first located Mayne's
body downstream, at a depth of 90 feet, and 550 feet inside a cave. (The
spokesman) said divers did not bring Mayne's body to the surface until 5:30
pm, in order to avoid stirring up sediment on the bottom of the cave, which
would have impeded the search for the unidentified victim.
The unidentified FSU student was located 50 feet from a cave opening
at Venture Sink, which connects with Clearcut Sink, at 5:30 pm. His body
was removed from the water upon recovery.
Officials said these were the first sinkhole deaths in the area
since Parker Turner, a world record-setting cave diver, died at Indian
Springs last year....
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