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    Doc Deep dies during dive.

    Pardon what follows, I've been on tiptoes about this event up to now, but this tips me into rant mode: We know a great deal more than that even without considering the idiotic videos that S.C.U.B.A. released in advance of this event. I note that SCUBA-TEC managed to spell the deceased's...
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    Doc Deep dies during dive.

    I've lived here a long time and I had never heard of the "Virgin Islands Free Press" until this incident. The website is a hollow blog with no details, and the by-line refers to John McCarthy who has been a disgraced figure on the periphery of journalism here for as long as I can remember...
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    Doc Deep dies during dive.

    If I may interject as someone who knows many of the people involved in this tragedy, I think it would be useful to distinguish between culpability and cause. The causes are many, and understanding them is an important exercise. Culpability suggests legal responsibility, and while I think it...
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    Doc Deep dies during dive.

    It is important to realize that people cope with tragedy in different ways. It may be hard to hear, but even the person who says, "Wow, what an idiot!" is using the experience to validate his or her own superior risk assessment skills. The self-appointed moral arbiter who runs around shoosh-ing...
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    Doc Deep dies during dive.

    You are right, I apologize for employing the loathsome passive voice, but it seems like the best choice to convey the existence of multiple causative agents without ascribing blame, as we are warned not to do in this forum. Some of those causative agents are: The diver who bears ultimate...
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    Could the scuba community have done something more to prevent Guy Garman's death?

    I know that I am not alone in thinking that I could have said more, spoken louder, done something more, but that is mostly an expression of grief. The few REAL technical divers on St. Croix with whom I've spoken share my frustration. I do not know the Garmans but I have known the owners of the...
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    Doc Deep dies during dive.

    Greetings all. FYI: The authorities have quite rightly ordered an attempt to recover Dr. Garman's remains this morning. I do not know what if any of the hoped-for information will be released, either by the authorities, by the family, or by the attorneys who I fear are lined up three deep for...
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