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Art,
There's an account in Bret Gilliam's "Deep Diving" (deep air, that is)
book.
Read the story and then throw the book away.
BTW, you may notice that most of the part of the book that's about Sheck
is ripped off from "Caverns Measureless to Man".
Best,
Carlos
"Paltz, Art" <Art.Paltz@R2*.CO*> on 09/20/99 15:43:59
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Subject: Account of Sheck Exleys Death?
Hi All,
Just finished reading Sheck's book, "Caverns Measureless to Man". All in
all a really good read and gives a good account as far as I can tell as a
non cave diver of the beginnings of cave diving. It's really scary reading
all that stuff! No disrespect but the stuff he was doing was really nuts!
It should not be viewed as a book to be read for what to do when cave
diving. In many respects it's a book that should be read on what NOT to
do.
Anyway, it mentions that he died while trying to break a world record (deep
helium, open scuba I assume). Does anyone have a link to an account of his
death? I've heard many stories about what happened but not seen anything
in
writing. Anyone got a link to a factual report?
Thanks,
Art.
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