No, but you can probably guess it's one of the usual suspects. Isn't that
IANTD country down there? George, now I would like to hear from the deep air
folks out there. I suppose they will say that the reason for this accident
is that there were insufficient "workup" dives for the late trainee? Also
this business about the 2, count 'em, 2 instroketers both getting tangled up
in the up line at the same time while the now-dead student "wandered off".

This story has more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese.

As I understand it the only diving allowed at Hal Watts is training dives,
so for a couple of deep air addicts to get a good narcosis buzz going they
have to bring along a student.

I suspect that the real story is more along the lines of the 2 instrokters
were so into enjoying the narcosis buzz (which was the goal of the dive in
the first place) they forgot they even had a "student" along until they
sobered up at 140 or so. They then sucked down all their back gas from
frantically concocting an alibi on their diving slates so their story would
square when the questions started flying on the surface.

   Jim
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> From: kirvine@sa*.ne*
> Reply-To: kirvine@sa*.ne*
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:40:21 -0500
> To: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
> Cc: "Michael J. Black" <mjblackmd@ya*.co*>, Aquanaut Mail
> <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> Subject: Re: deep air death at 40 fathom grotto
> 
> Jim, have you been able to find out which "training" agency gets the
> credit for this latest deep air death?
> 
> Jim Cobb wrote:
>> 
>> Teknisksykking.org has removed some of the articles from my site and put
>> them on his server in the form of a list.  If you want a better interface to
>> the articles you may peruse the site at:
>> 
>> http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/AQUAcorps/contents.htm
>> 
>> And the articles are fully indexed at:
>> 
>> http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/search.htm
>> 
>> Jim
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>> 
>>> From: "Michael J. Black" <mjblackmd@ya*.co*>
>>> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:37:44 -0800 (PST)
>>> To: Aquanaut Mail <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
>>> Subject: Re:  deep air death at 40 fathom grotto
>>> 
>>> http://tekniskdykking.org/tekniskdykking/artikler/aqua
>> 
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