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From: "Kent Lind" <klind@al*.ne*>
To: "Paltz, Art" <Art.Paltz@R2*.CO*>,
     "Mailing Tech Diver List (E-mail)"
Subject: RE: Account of Sheck Exleys Death?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:28:26 -0800
Art:

There was an account in Wired Magazine a few years ago:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.11/divers.html

I don't know how accurate this account is with respect to the facts.  I had it
bookmarked but I haven't looked at it in years.

-Kent-

-----Original Message-----
From: Paltz, Art [mailto:Art.Paltz@R2*.CO*]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 10:44 AM
To: Mailing Tech Diver List (E-mail)
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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