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I have not seen any post about the death of Steve Berman that I would in any way consider laughing. I can promise you that no one on this list takes any pleasure at all in his death. However, Steve was a cave instructor and well known to many. As an instructor he was very safety conscious and I am sure included accident analyses in his lectures. I doubt that he would object to the use of his own death in a cave as a lesson to those who follow. That to me seems to be the point of the comments and posts I have read. At 05:03 PM 6/1/01 +0000, you wrote: > >Dear all, I am sorry to say so but feel truly uncomfortable as >casualty reports are sent into the forum and some people (always) >laugh at the dead. I feel bad when I read senior divers (the ones >who have the responsibility/call to lead the community in >philosophical, ethical and technical matters) do so. This gives a >very bad image about the sensibility and ethics in the diver >community. > >Most people neither "choose to die" nor go through serious >accidents for "fun", as some people in this forum want to put it. >It is a tragedy every time this happens, it hurts everyone in >some way and it changes forever the life of family, friends and >colleagues. Anyone can do a mistake and anyone can be hit by a >series of random, unlucky events. > >My first supervisor at Lund University, a good, straightforward, >sincere, intelligent, icelandic marine biologist, Dr. Einar >Olafson, died in a diving accident. We had lots of research >plans, real team spirit and I was the first to get the news. >Everyone who knew him felt truly down, everyone was deeply sad >and people who laugh about this kind of things are extremely >offensive, _____extremely_____offensive_____. > >Please, think over this. Maybe ... you should sometime throw a >flower, a stone or a coin into the ocean as you glide into the >water ... to remember those who passed away. I do it. > >cheers, > >aldo.solari@ho*.se* >www.ccbb.ulpgc.es/fish-ecology/solaris >___ > > >-- >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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