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>X-Sender: grichardson@po*.wo*.at*.ne* >Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:15:56 -0600 >To: cavers@ca*.co* >From: Grady Richardson <grichardson@wo*.at*.ne*> >Subject: Re: Little River > >Forwarded from another list: > > >> >>> To set the record on yesterday's fatality at Little River. Rose >>Meadows >>> arrived at Little River with students just as a diver was exiting the >>water >>> stating that is buddy was still in the water. The survivor was Phil >>> Iantosca from Wis. The victim was Mike Hickey, w/m 27 years of age. >> Both >>> were scootering at Little River. They had flown down the day before >>and >>> this was their first dive since Sept. They had dove Little River >>March of >>> last year. >>> >>> I received the call at Ginnie Springs and a call was made to Lamar >>HIres. >>> Lamar and Del Motes made two dives and recovered the body on the >>second >>> dive. Attempts were made to notify both Larry Green and Henry. >>Dustin >>> was not at the scene and did not recover the body. Lamar and Del >>recovered >>> the body. >>> >>> It was determined that the victim and survivor were both Intro >>certified and >>> should not have been using doubles and should not have been using >>scooters. >>> The survivor stated that he and Mike the victim had approximately 70 >>cave >>> dives and 200 total dives. He stated they were intro trained. The >>> survivor stated they were to the Florida Room at Little River and >>that they >>> had silted it out and had turned the dive and were headed out when he >>lost >>> sight of his buddy. Lamar and Del made their first dive and did not >>locate >>> the body. Lamar then spoke to the survivor again and it was >>determined >>> that they had gone approximately 800 feet farther and had gone past >>the well >>> casing. On the second dive the body was recovered and was brought >>to the >>> surface at 1645. The well casing is approximately 2250 ft from the >>> entrance of Little River. The victims double 95's had 825 psi >>pressure >>> and were checked and had 21.2% air. The victim's Aladin Pro >>computer had >>> 104' as max depth. The victim was found face down on the bottom, >>his mask >>> was off and his regulator was out of his mouth. His scooter was still >>> attached to him. >>> >>> Mark Meadows and Harry Averill made a dive later that evening to >>retreive >>> the victims scooter as well as another scooter that was used for the >>> recovery and had to be left in the cave when the body was recovered. -Mike Rodriguez <mikey@ma*.co*> Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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