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Suppose we put this in a non-diving context. A man, an experienced climber, forces his fiance to take up mountain climbing. She gets a minimal amount of instruction in an artifical environment before hubby drags her across the globe to the Alps for her first climb, an admittedly not...

Could it be possible that he has a full time job and bills to pay that prevent him from leaving for an extented time? Also, the last time I looked it wasn't cheap to fly to Australia. On another note, I am a Public Safety Diver and have Dived a number of times with "certified" Rescue...

Not only did he cut flowers from his wife's grave, but he also sent Christmas cards to his wife's female friends with a wedding picture on the front and the hand written note inside: "who's the sexy guy...me!" along with a hand-drawn smiley face...creepy The piece did paint him as guilty, but...

Oh, and one other point: her equipment was fine, her tank had air, the reg was in her mouth when she died AND the coroner found no water in her lungs yet she died from hypoxia.... police believe he held her while he turned her tank off and then turned her tank back on after she died and let...

NBC Dateline did a 90 minute story on this last night with some interesting details: 1) the husband claimed his computer initially malfunctioned because the battery was in "backwards"... a lie, because the device actually recorded his brief initial dive and return to the boat to "fix it"...

My condolences...I dread the day when my Charley (a Golden Retriever) crosses the bridge. :shakehead: Out of the clear blue sky several weeks ago, my wife wondered out loud how far removed from wolves is the modern dog. As it turns out, the "genetic clock" estimates suggest certain breeds...

The way it was explained to me was this: at correct weighting, remember you should be about eye level to the water with a lung full of air and just begin to sink as you exhale with the bc deflated THUS, the lift determines what "poundage" of your body (in equivalent displaced water) can be...

I second that --- for me, the less looking down I have to do, the better. On longer rides, the crew usually gives you a heads up when you are 5 or 10 minutes away from the site, If you don't have it on, put it on when the boat is at top speed before you get to the site. There is less tendency to...

Strawberry Quarry, Slippery Rock PA Very cold, viz about 5 ft

I agree. CPR is useful for the very young or for people with acute, traumatic events with cardiopulmonary arrest, like electrocution, choking or drowning. The average out-of-hospital arrest from cardiac disease in the elderly rarely survives with CPR --- even in-hospital resuscitation is often...

Another lesson: tables and computers are only guidelines, not absolute. You can be well within both and get DCS. I didn't quite understand the rationale for not checking for a PFO? In other words, is a medical professional putting your future diving career ahead of your health? I may be...

You need three things for a valid lawsuit: 1) negligence 2) damages 3) some basis for attributing 2) directly to 1) Too often, people assume two out of three is enough. In this case, there may or may not have been negligence, but what are the damages? Sunburn? A few hours of panic? It is a...

My apologies. Perhaps we can mutually agree that both the book and movie are masterpieces of their respective genres and leave it at that.

Walter The unassailable point is: the book does not explain the movie. I, and any other viewer, can feel free to project our interpretations onto the movie (and there has been a lot written about a movie that is supposedly "explained" by a novel ---obviously not everyone feels that the novel...

I'll say again: the book, according to Clarke, was his own interpretation of the movie, not Kubrick's, and (also by Clarke's own admission) there is more Kubrick in the movie than Clarke. This was not a movie based on a book, the book came after the movie and was written by someone who had an...

The movie wasn't based on the book, or vice versa. The book was written at the same time as the screenplay and Clarke notes that the book was essentially his, while the screenplay (attributed both to Kubrick and Clarke) was more Kubrick. Thus, the belief that the book entirely explains what...

The movie is like The Last Supper of Da Vinci, no amount of analysis (or over analysis) can ever dim its glory:D

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Interesting cinema note: Kubrick had commissioned a score for the movie...the music of Strauss et al was simply background music he put in, as directors often do, for the purposes of mood etc while editing, viewing rough cuts and so on. However, he liked that music better than the written score...

I recall his short story The Sentinel, years later expanded to the book/movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. When the movie came out, my sister and I sat through it three consecutive showings (you could do that in those days). A true visionary. RIP.