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Just read this slowly and think about it. This is one of ths single most
patheticly stupid things I have ever heard or read. 

These people are so dumb , so ignorant and so dangerousyly stupid in my
opinion that they really need to be Baker Acted.

Why do we have morons teaching diving is not the question - it is why do
people listen to them and why do we allow these people to continue
ruining our sport.

We really needed to put the heat on them as hard as we can until it
stops. None of these morons can justify any of this. If any of you know
the families of the victims, advise them that they can be a part of
stopping the death.

Just read this stupidty and think about it.


Pina Rosana Porceddu wrote:
> 
>     A fatality occured at the 40 fathom grotto this weekend during a
> trimix course, the trimix student died and both of the divers were
> instructors.  I don't know for which agencies or what level of
> instructors these people are at this time.  The instructor teaching
> the course survived and was unharmed.
> 
>     The divers told the Grotto staff that they were to do 200' on air
> to prepare for the trimix dives.  (200 ft. is the maximum depth
> allowed without Hal Watts present, I believe.)  It wasn't until after
> the incident, when the data was downloaded from their *dive computers*
> that it was discovered they really did their air dives to 230'.  (They
> had done the 230' on air the previous day with no incident; this
> indicates that the 230' depth was not an 'accident'.)  The divers were
> not carrying stage bottles while "preparing for their trimix dives".
> 
>     Apparently the instructor said that what happened is the pair
> descended to 230 feet and the student swam away from the instructor.
> The instructor got caught up in some lines and, by the time he
> disentangled himself, he could not find the student and was
> dangerously low on air.  He ascended to (30 ft.??) and met a diver
> there, who shared air with him and led him over to the Grotto's O2
> whips at 15 ft.  Surface divers were alerted of the missing diver but
> he could not be found, though his fins were located.
> 
>     The diver was found the next day by Hal Watts, in (160 - I think)
> ft. of water stuck under a ledge.  The position of the diver, severly
> rigomorticised, indicated a struggle at the end.
> 
>     Hopefully I have not made any errors in my account; this
> information came from a reliable source.  If I have, in advance I
> apologize.

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