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Anyone know the actual situation of what happened? George,you can disregard this email and hit delete. We know your views on NE diving and believe it or not we are working on a stroke free zone. It may take awhile but you have to start somewhere. It "may" be safe to assume he was "solo" since there is no mention of a buddy report. -------------------------------------- Routine Outing Fatal For Diver Mourning an unexplained death by J. Jioni Palmer Staff Writer David Scholl developed a passion for Long Island's waterways as a child growing up in Lawrence, near Jamaica Bay. As a youth, he'd spend countless hours fishing and boating, but what he loved most of all was diving deep below the ocean waves. That love carried through to adulthood as Scholl, 42, did a four-year stint in the Navy and worked part time at a diving-gear shop in Mineola. He seized every opportunity to go out onto the water, even volunteering on weekends as an instructor on board the dive boat the Seahawk, helping less experienced aquanauts hone their skills, relatives said. But Saturday, while on a routine jaunt from Freeport to a ship wreckage about 18 miles south of Fire Island an unexplained tragedy befell Scholl that took his life. "He was a diving fanatic," says his older brother Fred of Wading River, who dives for the New York City Fire Department. "His house was like a shrine; it was full of artifacts he picked up diving." Saturday's accident bewildered Scholl's friends and relatives, who said he was an experienced diver. "If anybody got hurt, Dave would be the first person to go help," said stepdaughter Sarah Silverman, 27. "It's kind of shocking that he'd be the one needing to get rescued." Scholl had explored the wreckage of the G&D,a coastal steamer that sank in 1918,more than a dozen times. He had anchored the dive-boat Seahawk to the wreckage about 110 feet below the surface on the sandy ocean bottom and given the "all-clear sign" indicating that it was safe for others to dive, his sister said. Not long after that, a fellow crewmember discovered his lifeless body near the wreckage. He was brought to the surface, where the boat's crew administered CPR and radioed the Coast Guard, which took him by helicopter to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, where he was pronounced dead, said Suffolk County Homicide Det. Sgt. Arthur Ahl. "There is no indication at this point of a crime," he said, adding police were waiting for results of an autopsy by the Nassau County medical examiner. Divers from Suffolk's Marine Bureau are expected to examine the wreckage today in hopes of learning what went wrong, he said. Scholl's relatives said they hope police recover the underwater video camera he was carrying to shed light on the incident. Grieving friends and relatives yesterday remembered Scholl, who worked for the Village of Valley Stream driving a recycling truck, as an affable man with a generous heart who could light up a room with entertaining humor. "He was the class clown and the family comedian," said his sister Susan McBride, 48, of Rockaway Beach. "He was the happy-go-lucky guy that everybody loved." Scholl is survived by his companion of 10 years, Sue Silverman of Long Beach; his mother, Carole, and another sister, Debra; two children and four stepchildren. A wake will be today from 7-9 p.m. and tomorrow from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at the Meserole Funeral Home in Inwood. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation in Cedarhurst, with cremation following. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.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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