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Score: Charles Darwin: 1 PADI: 0 Don -----Original Message----- From: Christian Gerzner [mailto:christiang@pi*.co*.au*] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 6:04 PM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: A diving accident in the Blue Hole - Dahab, Red Sea List, Thought you might like to know that idiocies still abound: > On April 29th there was a diving accident in the Blue Hole in Dahab - > Egypt, Red Sea. The diver who died was Yuri Lipsky. There was some > conversation about the accident in the Israeli diving forum and one of the > participants asked his friend - an Egyptian instructor or DM who works > there, about it. This is the Egyptian's mail (I didn't snip anything): > > *************************************** > >Yes I do know by details what happened. As this Russian > >guy came to my diving center the day before the > >accident. > > >He is a Master Scuba Trainert PADI with all licences that > >PADI ever issued. > > >He started talking to me aboout how great he is as a deep > >diver and he made dives to 69M before and he want to make a > >video about Blue hole. > > >I told him that he should take Tech diving course then he > >can do that but he egnored me and said he can pay up to > >400$ for the duive. I told him straight that he is going to > >kill him self. > > **** Note: I admire the guy for turning down 400$. > **********This is a lot of money down there. > > >He went and asked other F.Head how started showing of about > >him as a great deep diver and also refused to let him to do > >the dive not for saafetty but because he is no good as a > >diver. > > >So the Russian kept on asking every buddy till he found > >another stupid guide. > > >He went for the dive with 8 KG of weghits and arround 45 KG > >of camera equipment using a normal BC that was not working > >very good. > > >when they hit 20 M as the video was going U can hear the guy > >is loosing controll shooting down using his underwater > >beeper and screaming, the camera nad lights was attached to > >him with no quick releases, the BC over pressure release > >didnt work and the BC exploded in the video you can hear > >that he was strugling to go up but no way. > > >his buddy ( stupid guide) saw him so he panicked and shooted > >to the surface. > > >they went 2 days after to recover his buddy. > > *****(I think he meant body). > > I think that this mail is quite educating. End quote I have no reason to believe that this e-mail is not factual. So what does this tell us? It'd be interesting to learn who signed him off as a < Master Scuba Trainert PADI with all licences that PADI ever issued>. Hmmm, there wouldn't be too many PADI trained people around with a name like Yuri Lipsky? Christian -- 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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