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At 01:20 PM 10/23/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Bottom line is that he was A: grossly overweighted, B: inexperienced
>(had surely not tested this configuration in more benign waters), and
>C: had -way- too much crap on. Could not get him off the bottom with
>his wings inflated? Can you say -get rid of all that crap??-

You correct .


>Not sure why Jim feels that this has anything to do with the way I dive,
>and you validate my point that less is more. Hmm... lesson here is not
>to let go of the friggin line in a current and expect to live long and
>prosper.

You are correct again , I do believe the point that Jim is after is that in 
one of your post you said
 >A boat wreck diver can very likely stand a lot more, especially if his
diving is
based on excavation of a small area of a sand-filled wreck. He really only
swims the length of the boat to the anchor line, descends, makes his way to
a site where he might spend an hour not moving more than two feet and
then

As the diver in question was geared as you described in one post , Jim I 
think had hoped to point out the danger.But as we  said the real danger was 
the divers inexperience.But this also leads to the "question" who was this 
diver trying to dive like?He was copying all the oldtimers he sees.But he 
did not have the several hundred dives that you guys do geared this way, so 
on the wrong dive he made a bad mistake and it cost him his life.I do not 
have a problem with the oldtimers diving this way , they have learn how to 
deal with it over time , the newbie diver is an accident waiting to happen 
like this.




>Dave Sutton
>


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