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I remember the one and only time I was in Egypt. I think it was januari '89, Hurghada. I was a sportsdiver with about 40 dives and very eager to dive in tropic waters after all those muddy lakes and ponds in the Netherlands. The first night after our arrival we met the crew and some other divers with whom we would spend the rest of the week. I remember sitting in the hotel lobby while a woman and a girl entered. They looked very sad. The captain told us that their husband and father dissappeared a day before. He did not return after the dive. We figured : this had to be a solo-AIR-deep dive otherwise why would someone wind up dead? and be lost!! We were right. The next morning they would sail out to bring flowers to the lokation where he was last seen. I was very shocked by that story and the look of those two family-members stayed with me the whole week while we were diving the Red Sea. A few days later a dive was planned to a lokation where dolphins could be spotted and off course we were very excited, cause we never saw a real dolphin before., but..... that dive was cancelled because we had two Belgian divers aboard who wanted to go really deep, and for that we had to move to another site. I remember it very well: one had independed doubles and a computer, the other one just had a single tank, no computer, tables or whatsoever. Together they made a dive to 75 meters on one computer, decoing-buddybreathing on one of the independant doubles (the other one was already emptied during the dive) off course everthing was done on AIR those days. Nobody of the crew objected against this dive even though the divers werent' up to it at all (no training, no gear, no nothing) A few days later I made my very first dive to 30 meters, man was that deep! Now ten years later, I'm still a sportsdiver, learning about DIR, Nitrox, Trimix, redundancy and lots of other stuff. Finding out that there are still people, who made diving their proffession/living, defending and teaching the same stupidity that already killed people in the last ten years of diving and will continue to do so untill they stop. This again makes me sad, so lets stop them.......because they don't care: #1. don't dive with strokes Robbert van der Gon Netscher -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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