Lisa, this post of yours has brought out the usual suspects from the Buddy
Inspiration cheering section, who are about the same caliber of mentality as
you would expect to see at a cock fight. They are citing some web links that
contain examples of stupidity that are beyond the pale, but they see them as
fantastic accomplishments.

Maybe you and the rest of the Buddy Inspiration widows can explain to these
morons what it really means to have your husband killed by a piece of shit
like Martin Parker, by the crap training out there, by the "every man for
himself" mentality of the tough guy Brits who seem to feel these devices
make them a real man, and by the very "accomplishments" ( read doing stupid
things and getting away with it) that they are so proud of.

The funny thing is that they want to attack me over your post. Your husband
is dead along with countless others due to this piece of crap and the
thinking that surrounds it, and we have some lame moron on here telling me
how superior these people are and how screwed up GUE is ( now he has changed
that to "DIR").

Maybe you can put some of the things you told me privately on here and save
some lives. While the idiots are well recognized by most of us a idiots, you
never know who you could prevent from suffering like you have.


-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa [mailto:lisa3@ch*.co*]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 3707 12:58 AM
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Nic Gotto Inquest


Cork City Coroner, Dr Myra Cullinane, last week recorded an open verdict at
the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Nic Gotto, Union Hall,
County Cork, who died in July 1998 whilst using the Buddy Inspiration
Rebreather. The coroners court heard that Nic and some friends were due to
dive to the Kowloon Bridge wreck, just a few miles south of Glandore harbour
in County Cork, when the tradgy happened. Nic and his buddy entered the
water as normal and proceeded to the bow of the wreck at 9m. All was well at
thisstage, Nic was seen to have looked at his handsets and then signalled Ok
to his buddy. He indicated a direction for the dive to continue and lead the
way with his buddy following behind. The visibility was very poor that day
and Nic's buddy lost sight of him for a few minutes only able to follow by
using Nic's torch beam for direction. Within a few minutes the buddy came
upon Nic lying on his back with his mouthpiece out and having what appeared
to be a convulsion. His buddy immediately realised that Nic was in trouble
and attempt to rescue him. In the rescue attempt Nic's buddy lost his own
mouthpiece and weight belt and started to ascend. He made it to the 9m mark
and managed to alert another pair of divers that Nic was in trouble. One of
the other divers quickly found Nic and assisted him to the surface where he
was taken onboard the boat and CPR was administered for 45 minutes after
which time the Air Sea Rescue helicopter winched him on board and flew him
to hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The court heard that
Nic's rebreather was dropped during his rescue and was not recovered for
some days. On inspection the Buddy Inspiration Rebreather was found to be in
good working order and no alterations had been made to the kit. There was a
reading on both guages. Both handsets, when opened, were found to be cracked
and full of seawater. Nic had been seen to be having difficulties
calibrating his equipment prior to getting on the boat. On the boat prior to
the dive, Nic dismantled and cleaned and re assembled his equipment,
breathed from the unit and prepared to enter the water. It was noted that no
alarm was heard at anytime before, during and after Nic was brought to the
surface. Mr Hogan, the pathologist at Cork University Hospital, said that
Nic had suffered drowning after a metabolic event had occurred leading to
him losing consciousness, he said that it might have Hyperoxia or Hycapnia.
It was recorded that Nic had completed approx. 10 dives on the equipment. As
no one had witnessed Nic changing the scrubber canister the manufactures, AP
Valves, did make a submission that it might have been Hypercapnia that lead
to Nic's demise. Nic's widow Rachel was able to tell the court that of two
20kg drums of sofnalime at her house over half of one is gone. The coroner
seemed satisfied that this suggested that Nic had replaced the scruba
contents. At the end of three days the Jury were directed to return one of
three possible verdicts, accidental death, death by misadventure and open
verdict. They returned the latter.

During questioning, a witness who initially reported that Nic told her the
scrubber could last 10 hours, confirmed this 10 hours could well have
related to the O2 cylinder duration and not the scrubber.



My condolencies to Rachel, Nic's wife, and his three daughters, two who are
teenagers and one little girl who has never seen her father.


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