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Is it just me, or was the major cause of Sheck's death violating
thirds? From all accounts, he was on a tight breathing schedule with
barely sufficient gas for the dive if nothing went wrong.
I realize there's a limit to how much gas you can carry on your back,
but then if you can't carry it, don't do the dive (and don't die...).
Cam
Richard Lister wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:43:59 -0400
> "Paltz, Art" <Art.Paltz@R2*.CO*>
> wrote concerning '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?
>
> There's an archived aquaCorps incident report at:
>
> http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/aquacorps/Incidentreps/IR5.htm#Sheck Exley:
Preliminary Accide
>
> I used to have the copy of aquaCorps with the article about the Zacaton
> dive, but not any more.
>
> Ric
>
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