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Michael, rarely do divers send me emails with their ankles sticking out their mouth because the foot is so far in. Being one of the few that is capable of diving the EF and have perused this dive as several on this list will tell you, you really don't have a clue. If you post something at least get the facts right or close, the dive was 7 mins BT on OC. Diving OC to that depth is VERY mental. To plan it with any kind of real safety margin prevents a longer BT. Besides one does not start doing BT longer until you have done a great many dives to the same depth. New techdivers do only 15-20 mins at 200ft because it is a new depth for them, divers with more experience will stay 25-35 mins. Most of you guys don't have a clue what a depth of that magnitude will do to you mentally. At 12:13 AM 3/17/02 -0500, Michael A. Graham wrote: >JT... >To answer your question: the Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729' long steel bulk >freighter when she sank in 1975; at the time, she was one of the largest >vessels on the Great Lakes. Today, the Fitz lies 530 feet beneath the >surface of Lake Superior. > >The dive that Tysall and Mike Zee, his partner, made on the Fitz doesn't >really measure up as much of a dive, as dives go; they spent less than 15 >minutes on the wreck...it was more of an issue of proving that it could be >done on open circuit scuba. To get to the wreck, the pair followed the >tether of the surface ship's ROV; to say "I did it" is one thing, I suppose, >but so what? > >It's an extremely hostile environment that proves absolutely nothing more >about these 2 than that they have more guts than brains. Nobody's tried to >top their "accomplishment"...I don't believe that anybody really cares to >try. Diving isn't about proving how "manly" you are...this dive did nothing >more than provide Tysall and his partner, Mike Zee, with "bragging rights". >By the way, following Tysall and Zee's "accomplishment", the families of the >crew members that perished on the Fitz successfully petitioned the Canadian >government to prohibit any further attempts to dive the wreck. > >To your remarks about the man, JT...diving the Fitz does not make Tysall any >less of a liar; his claim to serving in the United States as a SEAL is, >apparently, still BS. > >MAG "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water" Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ Email captjt@mi*.co* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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