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Krazy Kiwi <[log in to unmask]>
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SouthEast US Scuba Diving Travel list <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 3 Apr 2001 05:25:10 -0400
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In the lastest SPUMS Journal they have an interesting write-up on the book
titled The Last Dive by Bernie Chowdhury.

Many of you would know of some of the details due to who the subjects are:
* father & son (Chris & Chrissy Rouse) diving tragedy - 230 fsw dive using
air in a rough sea into a wreck
* the Scapa Flow salvage in the 1920s
* the influence of Shek Exley and others in persuading cave divers to
recognise risky behaviour & follow safe diving principles
* records of avoidable fatalities
* successful recovery of divers
* decompression illness
etc.

BUT, the most BIZZARE story is the case of a dead diver kept on ice so as
not to cause the aborting of an expensive live-aboard dive trip!!  Yuck!!
I want to get the book just to find out what dive operation that was!!
If that was a diving-related death the delay to check on actual cause could
have disappeared internally if it was bubble-related. Reminds me of the day
I went to see the movie Coma .. I was absolutely frozen to the bone when I
came out of the theatre, even though it was in the middle of the afternoon,
and vowing never to go in to hospital!
Viv

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