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From: "Sean Cary" <smcary@mi*.co*>
To: <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Cc: "TECH LIST" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: The Quick and the Dead Release was Re: DIR on RIB's
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:27:48 -0500
I trained her DM that did the jumping...Mike Dubose...one of the nicest most
attentive people you will ever find on a boat.  I was very surprised at the
conduct of that dive after I heard it!  Sounded like a total cluster fuck.

Sean Cary

To Err Is Human
To Forgive Divine
Neither Is My Policy

----- Original Message -----
From: <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
To: <donw_s11@sw*.ne*>
Cc: <tgunther@co*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: The Quick and the Dead Release was Re: DIR on RIB's


> Ray Latulippe is the guy you are talking about - now a WKPP diver and
> the kind of guy we like to have around. He brought Arielle up from 200
> feet amd revived her on the spot.
>
>  Also, the boat operator, the best in South Florida, Lyn Simmons,
> spotted the bubbles coming up, knew she was looking at a problem,  and
> had her dive master jump onto them with his mask and fins on ready to
> rock.
>
>  A tad different than the excuses we hear most of the time.
>
> Don W. wrote:
> >
> > Tod,
> >
> > I've heard first hand from one person that revived his girlfriend
> > (now wife) after a dive accident by inflating her lungs with O2 when
> > the dive boat crew had basically given up.  George knows about this
> > incident (out of Boynton Beach) as well as he is the one that
> > mentioned it before I contacted the individual.
> >
> > TWO MAJOR CAVEATs:
> >
> > 1) If they are puking, don't blow the vomit down into their lungs as
> > this will probably be fatal.  Clear their mouth and throat to the
> > extent possible first.
> >
> > 2) Don't overinflate their lungs (duh).
> >
> > Any Doc's or ETs want to forget about your insurer and add something to
> > this?
> >
> > Alton--What is the liability to an untrained person if they damaged the
> > persons lungs trying to revive them or it was shown that the person died
> > due to aspirating vomit?
> >
> > Later,
> >
> > Don W.
> >
> > tgunther@co*.co* wrote:
> > >
> > > ( I don't do "rescue breaths" on puking victims , I use the reg and
power
> > > inflate them).
> > >
> > > Can you elaborate on this?    Instead of doing rescue breaths on a
diver you
> > > insert the reg into his/her mouth and give them air this way?
> > >
> > > <<   WKPP is back diving, La Nina is making this possible, and for
the
next
> > > three months that is all I have time for and all I care about. >>
> > >
> > > Have fun!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tod
> > >
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