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From: George Irvine > Don, the reason the info on most is hard to obtain is that there were no > witnesses, i.e., no buddy, and or it was deep air and the cover-up is in > full swing. Absolutely. The survivors, if any, are mainly interested in staying out of lawsuits or coming up with a way for the family to collect on the life insurance. > You are wasting your time. This project flies strictly space available, primarily nasty weather when for some reason I can't do wreck research, work out or build toys. If I wasn't doing this, the time would be spent watching the tube anyway. :) > Look at depth, gas and buddy for 99% of the answers. You bet. Eyeballing the list, there are a few early deep airs, the number of which increased around the early eighties, then tapered off a bit. There are still a few each year. There was a flurry of rebreather deaths, which dropped quite a bit when the word got around about several failure-prone units. The "wrong regulator" incidents seem to have started during the rebreather days and have dropped off. There aren't too many of these reported any more, although I wonder about some of the "found dead on the bottom" divers. There are quite a few "how did they live that long?" cases, involving poorly homemade versions of military or commercial gear, regurgitations of abandoned systems, or gross ignorance. Many of these were during tech courses. There are a few "shit happens" incidents, primarily cave dives with things like flow reversals and cave-ins compounded by otherwise minor equipment problems. Every once in a while, a really good diver does something incredibly dangerous and pays the price. I can only guess at the reasons. It appears to be very rare for a diver to get hurt with a buddy and appropriate gasses. I suspect the presence of a buddy is not the primary reason for this, but the preparation that resulted in many things, including the buddy, is. Don NetZero Platinum No Banner Ads and Unlimited Access Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://www.netzero.net -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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