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Hello, No I want figures on death by mechanical failures vs death by doing stupid things. It makes a *HUGE* difference. Ed -----Original Message----- From: skipmac@co*.co* [mailto:skipmac@co*.co*] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:38 PM To: Ed Street Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: RE: This is inspiration diving and people are supposed to die At 01:23 PM 7/8/01 -0400, you wrote: > >Hello, > >You have some medical facts to back up this number of 12? This is a totally asinine question. What medical facts do you want? Dead is dead. Do you need to see a copy of the coroners report stating the person was actually dead and not just unconscious? >Also it would be >intersting to see how many died with 'dir equipment' To be technically correct, I guess one could say that there have been a few divers that died using DIR type equipment, but I know of none where a diver died following all the "standards" of DIR. Buying a certain set of dive gear does not make one a DIR diver. It is the proper use of that equipment that is DIR. >but who made silly >mistakes and ended up dead. Just like fighter planes. The standards and >equipment is so advanced that mistakes, when they happen, are almost always >listed as 'pilot error'. > >Ed > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Braunbehrens [mailto:Bakalite@ba*.co*] >Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:00 PM >To: Ed Street; techdiver@aquanaut.com >Subject: RE: This is inspiration diving and people are supposed to die > > >Ed, I think you're right. After all, no one has ever died on an >Inspiration, and the newspapers are full of people who have croaked >using the DIR method. I think I'll sell all my DIR gear and just get >an inspiration. > >In all seriousness, just look at the death toll. That number alone >should make it clear why your little joke about DIR is not funny, and >why people call it the Buddy desperation or the Buddy Expiration. > >I believe the death toll is at 12 now, on the Inspiration. > >I don't need much more than this: > >Buddy Inspiration : 12 >DIR : Zero > > >Next.... > >Ed Street wrote: >~ > >Hello, > > > >Someone wanna tell me why alot of ppl here doesn't like the inspiration > >units? From what I've seen on them and the people i've talked to who uses > >that unit they good units. The only negativity i've seen was from this > >list. > > > >Besides the worlds record deepest cold water dive to the HMS Dasher >aircraft > >carrier included an inspiration on the dive team, but they didn't use DIR > >(Died In Recompression) so I don't expect anyone here to understand it. >For > >those of you with open minds here's the link to the memorial service they > >conducted http://www.technicaldivers.com/hms_dasher.html > > > >Ed > > > >-- > >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > >-- >Paul B. > >-- >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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