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Paul, Comments scattered within. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Braunbehrens" <bakalite@ba*.co*> To: "Don Burke" <donburke56@ne*.ne*> Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: 17 March, 2003 15:04 Subject: Re: Fatal Depth > Talk about cross posting! That message must have gone to a dozen > mailing lists! Yeah, upon further review, I got carried away. The actual number was nine. BTW, one of those lists, NOVATECH, doesn't exist any more and vbtech either purged my name or has been shut down. The number that worked was seven, still a bit much. > Anyway, I just wanted to point out that all these books are worth > reading and will even teach you something. Of course you'll have to > use your brain, because 99% of what they'll teach you is what not to do. I'm going to order a copy of "Fatal Depth" as soon as I log on to send this. > One thing I really like about reading these books, and even Shek > Exley's great book is that it really drives home some of the reasoning > behind DIR. While reading "The Last Dive" and "Deep Descent", I kept seeing where George's preaching was coming from. What is the title of Exley's book? I'd like to track it down. > For example, I'm pretty sure it was in "the last dive" that there is > the story of the guy who hooks tons of tools and other crap to his > belt. A lot of the stuff is hooked on with suicide clips. He then > jumps over the side, by himself, and is found much later snagged in a > bunch of wires in a "hole" in the wreck they were diving. Now you see > why we dive a balanced rig, don't use suicide clips, and don't dive > solo. That is "Deep Descent." The chapter is "Death on the Doria," basically the story of John Ormsby's death. Page 15 has a couple of pictures of John wearing that belt. Somewhere around here is one of Gary Gentile's books, "Advanced Wreck Diving" or something like that. I read it a couple of years ago and "Deep Descent" is where I found out why he is so adamant about some things. > Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying these guys were idiots, although I'm > sure some of them were/are. Back then there really was no other way, > and people learned as they went along. Someone would get killed, and > then most divers would stop doing what they thought killed the guy. Some certainly learned faster than others. > Anyway, those books are interesting even from a purely historical > perspective. They really show how the rules we now follow have come to > be. Agreed. Thanks, Don -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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