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Pina, the dates do not matter - do stupid things like deep air and you can just keep sending out the same release each time. Bullshit is bullshit, and what is going on at 40 fathom grotto is bullshit, and everyone seems to know that othre than a small handfull of idiots. This is not my opinion, it is reality - only a moron dives deep air, teaches deep air, or would try to send out anything as stupid as blaming a deap air death on a "violation of standards". It is a violation of common sense, and in my opinion , what you people arr doing is criminal, and I really hope you not only get sued into oblivion, I hope you get charged with murder, because in my opionion that is what you are attempting to commit every time you do this. ' You people are so stupid and so out of line it is ridiculous. Hopefully you will lose your insurance and then your ass. pina wrote: > > The article posted on that webpage > (http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/AQUAcorps/contents.htm) is not > about the incident from last weekend (you can check the html source > and see the date it was created was 5/28/98). I haven't seen any > detailed printed information about the recent incident yet, but I > think it has been in a couple small newspaper articles. > > The trimix instructor (the survivor) was from Atlanta and the > student <instructor also> was from Tennessee. The instructor > was familiar with the site, and knew specifically that he was not to > go deeper than 200' under any circumstances. > > The pair went down a line to 220' ish which ends at a Oldsmobile, > followed that line over to a VW van and from there left the lines and > went exploring the bottom of the Grotto (with a compass I guess, or > perhaps a reel or maybe nothing at all). They drifted down the slope > to 230' and that is where the instructor said that his student shot > off swimming away from him. > > He went to chase the student and then he got entangled in whatever > he got entangled in. The instructor stated that he got entangled in a > line <but at 230' in the Grotto there are not very many lines, just > one straight one which is kept taught> so he must have been severely > impaired at that time, perhaps gotten entangled in his reel (if he was > running one - which I don't know either way). By the time he got out > of it he realized he was in the red zone and ascended immediately. > > A diver on the 30 ft. platform shared air with the OOA instructor > and led him over to the o2 and alerted surface divers to the missing > diver. Someone jumped in and immediately began searching for him, but > he was not located and after about 30 minutes it was determined that > he must be dead. His fins were found, however, at 230'. That means > that the deceased diver took off his fins in 230' of water, makes > sense. > > The instructor who survived had missed his deco stops (which I > guess were all planned for air since he had no stages... looks like > they were bluffing about those being trimix training dives). After > breathing off the o2 for a while he was sent to the hospital as a > precautionary measure, but apparently no symptoms were evident. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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