Sounds like this jerk needed the silver bullet to the head, and got it,
but after he wasted a few other lives.


Mario wrote:
> 
> The victim was a very experienced deep air coral cutter, padi instructor,
running  his own "100m. dive club" in Lubjana, Slovenia. He
> caused four or five deaths in the past few years between his OWD students,
which attempted to satisfy the "requisites" required to be
> admitted in this very exclusive club. A pair of these were a 18 years old
girl and her 17 years old boyfriend, OWD certified the month
> before, both drowned in a 100+ meters air dive two years ago.
> He was about 40. I don't know if he was a  iantd istructor or what else. I
don't know much of the incident because i was out of town for
> holidays.
> 
> Here is what i know from a friend of mine, who recovered the body:
> It was a cave dive in the Antro di Bagnoli, in 50 meters (165 ft) depth, with
very bad viz., about 0,5-2 meters, and about 10°C. This cave
> is virtually unexplored cause there are a lot of tight restrictions, the
beginning part being only 70cm wide. He wanted to add line to a
> 200 meters penetration he setted during a previous dive, the week before.
> He was, "obviously", breathing air, and was a solo dive.
> He wore a trilaminate dry suit, a "technical BC" and a manifolded steel
doubles at 300 bar,
> He had  one depth gauge only, but mounted on the primary first stage.
> Apparently, he didn't open the manifold knob before the dive.
> He was found drowned, with one tank completely empty, and the other with 280
bar, about 30 meters before a deco bottle on the way back to
> the exit of the cave.
> That's all.
> 
> Mario Arena
> Trieste - Italy
> 
> Bill ha scritto:
> 
> > I heard that a cave diver drowned in Italy.  He was an IANTD (at least)
Instructor trained by John Orlowski.  Any body know any more??
> >
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