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From: trey@ne*.co* (Trey)
To: "Paul Lewitsch" <plewitsch@ya*.co*>, <quest@gu*.co*>
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: RE: Another NE wreck death
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 06:24:10 -0400
Paul, NE diving is a disgrace - partially due to the bullshit, and more due
to the fact that the rest of you go along with it.

Let me ask a question, and you NE divers can get out your dictionary to look
up this word: "Where was this guy's B U D D Y ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Lewitsch [mailto:plewitsch@ya*.co*]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 1:43 PM
To: quest@gu*.co*
Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Another NE wreck death


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.
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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.


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