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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:13:53 -0500
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
From: Tony Thomas <tony@st*.co*>
Subject: Re: stroke tee shirt /dive girl mag
Curious about something...

At 05:45 PM 2/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Yes IANTD has had three incidents in its history that resulted in
>fatalities, and that is three more than we are anyone would like to have.

>(George in fact as you know wKPP has had accidents, look at)

>Sherwood Schiles ( one of the more senior members of WKPP and a long time
>personal friend of Parker )
>
>Bill McFadden ( deep air while doing a survey, Bill Gavin (on gas)tried to
>rescue
>him, but Bill's narcosis or whatever prevented it)
>
>Robbie McGuirre (failure to label tanks) I do not know if Robbie was
>formally a member of the wKPP or just diving with the wKPP although the dive
>he died on was not a WKPP dive but a personal dive
>
>Parker Turner (due to environment/cave collapse and he was not doing

Can someone fill me in on how many of the aforementioned WKPP related
accidents occurred while under the leadership of the current director?

What, if any, steps did the respective organizations (IANTD and WKPP) take
to prevent similar accidents from occurring?

Tony Thomas
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