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Corrected facts after speaking with one of the divers: Two of the three divers planned on a dive to 250fsw on air and completed their dives using air and deco mixes; the third diver planned a dive with air as a travel mix, switch to trimix and dive to 340fsw, return to 180 or so and hangout on air for about 10 minutes. Divers parted company at 250fsw and the two on air came back, and completed all deco. They observed the third diver make a switch to trimix and head down (his computer shows he made it to just over 300fsw). Instead of heading down he turned horizontal and they lost sight of him and his bubbles. Having no choice they headed up and did their required deco on deco mixes. On arrival on the surface they found that the third diver had rocketed to the surface while they were still on the line according to one of the diver's girl friend who had been left on board the boat on the surface. His drysuit looked like the Michelin Man at the surface. Coast Guard recovered the body floating face down about 45 minutes after the other two hit the surface. I understand that he was using an OMS 120 pumped to 4000psi for air travel mix, a 72 cu.ft. tank pumped up to give him 80 cu.ft. of bottom mix and two OMS 45's for deco gases. I suspect he ran out of bottom mix, panicked and may have had an O2 hit on switching back to air and had his dry suit exhaust valve "stopped down" in an effort to asend to a "safe" depth for his air travel mix resulting in the sky rocket effect uncontrolled asent. Arron will be missed by many of his friends. Hal Gartner Harold Gartner hgartner@ra*.or* CompuServe ID 71470,1423 6900 Via Alba Camarillo, California 805 482-9743
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