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