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wendell grogan wrote:
(huge snips)

> PS, someone there has told me that he was actually wearing a dry suit,
> but apparently the rest of the report is accurate.He was using a pony
> bottle, but had 900 psi in his main tank when recovered.

Interesting.

Here in Oz we had a double fatality quite a few years ago now when two
DM's (FWTIW) penetrated the one place they shouldn't on the Himma, a
small, as in tug size as I recall, wreck off the northern beaches of
Sydney lying in 46m (151 ft) or so.

This chamber is particularly dark, lots of nooks and crannies, lots of
downhanging conduit and only one entry/exit which means lots of silt.
They had absolutely no right to go in there. Dammit, they didn't even
have a penetration line.

Both were recovered with breathable quantities of air in their tanks.

Whilst I certainly am not aware of the specifics of the coronial
enquiry (Strike? BillyW?) I thought this odd at the time, considering
they were trapped and therefore couldn't do anything other than panic.

So did they panic enough that they forgot to breathe?

Christian
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