Below is what I said exactly on my web site about the death , there are two 
statements I make in the story that says it best and these are it.

1)I believe the diver called the dive as we were told, this was done 
because he had winded himself when he let go of the anchor line. The added 
drag from his gear in the current and excess weights on his ankles (all 
over) was too much for him to bear. He was not streamlined. The diver did 
not have the experience to just stop long enough to collect himself and 
breathing heavy, but not wanting to show he was in trouble gave the OK sign 
and went for the boat. He never stopped to relax and catch his breath. His 
own ego stop him from asking for help, he knew he was in trouble I think.
..
2) But even with this stand I have taken with this gear, the diver in my 
opinion would still be here if he had not let go of the anchor line to 
pass, his inexperience on this thing killed him.


At 09:41 PM 10/22/99 -0400, Jim Cobb wrote:
>Dave, please see www.capt-jt.com and read his story about a recent Doria
>death he had the displeasure of doing the body recovery on. A mitigating
>factor appears to be that the victim lost the down-line and, due to a
>configuration similar to the one you favor, got so winded getting back to
>the line he apparently had a CO2 blackout, sank like a rock and died. He too
>had more dives than God but is still dead, dead, dead.
>
>IP's learn from mistakes, usually gleaned from the pile of rubble and large
>hole in the ground the pilot-in-error made. I am sure you have many stories
>about this guy and that guy who augured in due to this mistake or that
>mistake.
>
>    Jim
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>
> > From: "Dave Sutton" <pilots@na*.ne*>
> > Reply-To: "Dave Sutton" <dsutton@re*.or*>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:01:39 -0400
> > To: "Anthony Appleyard" <mclssaa2@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>,
> > <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> > Subject: Re: streamlining of scuba gear
> >
> > -But-, and I mean this sincerely, there are more than one way to do all of
> > this,
> > and for -some- diving applications drag is not nearly the issue that it is
> > for
> > others. A scootering diver going into a cave requires absolute minimum 
> drag.
> > 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 back to the anchor line. So once again, use the correct tool to 
> hit the
> > correct nail. A Cave-divers gear is 80% common in rigging and use as a
> > deep wreck divers gear. But that 20% difference should be recognized as
> > a valid change for environmental changes. Carriage of tools is not a cave
> > divers mission. Nor is setting up an 'off anchor-line' deco system. But
> > I'm not nearly as dependant on lights as a cave diver. And I deal with a
> > much
> > less benign entry/exit situation, so my gear must be tight to work in the
> > splash-zone. There are many small changes, but the core techniques are the
> > same.
>
>
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