The story that is on the accident report and also that Bowden talks about is
that their descent lines were about 25' apart and therefore were both diving
solo, just coincidently in the same cave since the visibility was poor.
Bowden actually made it about 20' deeper than Sheck did, so that tells you
how much they were in sight of each other.

	Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael J. Black [mailto:mjblackmd@ya*.co*]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:53 AM
To: Aquanaut Mail
Subject: Re: Oh great one!


As for Sheck breaking rules, didn't he break just about all of them,
including his own "Don't dive deep in caves."  Regarding the Zacaton
dive in 1994, it is my understanding that Exley and Bowden were
within sight of each other for most of the descent.  At 925 feet,
Bowden could no longer see Sheck who was below him, and began his
ascent solo.  Exley's body surfaced three days later.  MJB
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