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Thankyou George for that insight. I had read everything I could find on the subject. He dive the "Shaft" down at Mount Gambier and explored a long tunnel to 87m. I don't know an what gas. I have dived the shaft a few times. Jeff of Darwin. The water in the sea is 30 degrees C. At 06:01 12/01/00 -0500, you wrote: >Jeff, he was in open water ten feet from the bank and we could see down >on him from above. In the last 500 feet of cave and in the cavern there >was zero vis and we were all on the line single file in touch contact >until we got into the open water portion - the last 20 feet. He could >not see us, we could see him because of his light. > >Exley died doing somebody else's dive plan not his, and he was breathing >air to 400 feet - real stupid. He was not allowed by the others to bring >us to support him which would have changed the entire equation >dramaticly, sicne we could have set his bottles in for him and and he >could have used the correct gasses and correct decent rate for the dive, >still as stupid as it gets, but better than what he did - there was no >talking him out of it, I tried for weeks. All he wanted was to have >those records, and I told him that with or without records, he was still >Sheck Exley, and Batman is still batman - a stroke - no matter what. > > >Jeffrey Swann wrote: >> >> Oh great one, you did not reply, >> >> HMMMMMM >> Didn't you say your buddy is your life? >> >> Just joking as well. >> >> On another note. >> I have read about Sheck and read his books. >> When you said he broke rule "number one", I am not sure what you meant. >> It goes with out saying I think that the dive he was doing could only have >> been solo. >> Though I know Bowden was there. >> But obviously could not help each other. >> For me, I don't know why anyone would want to punish his body as he did. >> Although one can only marvel at his achievments. >> Regards, >> Jeff of Darwin. >> More DIR every day.......... >> >> At 23:02 8/01/00 -0500, you wrote: >> >I blew up the power supply to one of my computers Friday night, so if >> >you sent me an email Friday, I can't answer it until I get a new part. >> >It was the computer out of the digital mapper which I had rigged to run >> >off of the scooter - real smart to do email with - I shorted it out . >> > >> > Send it again and I will pick it up with this machine ( just the stuff >> >you wanted answered). >> > >> > Werner , Rose, Trout and I had a cool dive today in Tally ( I'm home >> >now) - smoked a little cave, got into some horrifying shit, and had a >> >few laughs. We removed all of the gear out of sight of the sink hole up >> >the hill and stayed real quiet, and when Trout surfaced it looked like >> >we have left. Always joking around . >> > >> >-- >> >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> > > > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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