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JR - I agree with you completely. The problem is that even when a guy like Motes who knows what he is doing reports, he just can't make himself face the facts that the CF happened before the dive, and that what he witnessed was merely the denoument. You will never see anything meaningful out of the cave community on an accident. The truth is that cave diving is risky, and would be a lot less so if the 500 or more "instructors" out there spent a litle time taking people diving. We do. We take our guys diving all of the time to work on methods and get experience. In fact, we also run drills all of the time. Chris Werner only allows diving at some of our sites if 1) a dive plan is submitted, 2) some drills are performed, and 3) a report is then given about the dive, and these guys are pros, not amateurs. Scott Landon and Casey McKinlay also spend a lot of time with these guys. gordonjr wrote: > > George, > Your points are well taken and I agree that they probably weren't up to the > multiple challenges they encountered which were further magnified by air @ > 70fsw. I hope I never have to find out my limitations like that. > > What equally upsets me is the poor quality of the investigation that passes > for "accident analysis" today. I know that you are quite familiar with all > this, but I believe the more data available to the public regarding these > all-to-often CF's, the better chance we have of understanding and perhaps > surviving the next incident. We just need to do a better job investigating > and reporting these accidents, that was my main point. > > I -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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