Amazing Dive article on Dave Shaw

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The most moving dive story I've ever read.

Warning: 11 powerful pages of alarmingly deep diving...

 

[diversteve]

You should see the video:
ABC News

Other discussions here about it:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...ter-videographer-podcast-dave-shaw-story.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...3413-abc-primetime-deep-deep-diver-story.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/166969-raising-dead.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ac...showing-diver-s-death-should-broadcasted.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/rebreathers/107199-cavedive-article-aug-outside-mag.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ac...05-abc-nightline-bushman-s-hole-accident.html
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/83634-tragedy-bushman-s-cave-boesmansgat.html

 

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Other discussions here about ...

Thanks Steve... I tried the "has this been asked" button on the thread submission thingiee before this thread and got a whole lot-o-nottin back. What does that button search?

-C

 

[diversteve]

Did you get this response:

The search term you specified (on) is under the minimum word length (3) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer

If so that's because your title contained the word "on". It's because we limit the .vBulletin Search s/w to 4 characters minimum.

Although doing that with just Dave Shaw only turned up 3 hits, this post and two about the podcast. So I'm really not sure what Has this been asked before searches either...

I did a regular search on Dave Shaw to retrieve the posts in my reply. And there were others, I just posted ones that seemed useful.

What I do is use Google to search SB. In a Google search window typing: Dave Shaw site:scubaboard .com would've retrieved similar posts. Note that this also works for 3 character terms like BCD etc...

Someone also setup a custom Google Search just for Scubaboard here: ScubaBoard Google Search - but I'm not sure if it will always be a valid link.

 

[Gene_Hobbs]

His death is a great example of how effort-independent expiratory flow can affect divers at great depth.

The report is available for free here:
Mitchell SJ, Cronjé FJ, Meintjes WA, Britz HC. Fatal respiratory failure during a "technical" rebreather dive at extreme pressure. Aviat Space Environ Med. 2007 Feb;78(2):81-6. PubMed ID: 17310877

It was not just "CO2 build-up" as often gets quoted but an actual physiological response to great depth (density of the breathing gas with resistance of the airways) that results in excess CO2 among other problems. Well worth reading the AsEM report to understand the "coughing" or "grunts".

 

[Theunis]

The most moving dive story I've ever read.

Warning: 11 powerful pages of alarmingly deep diving...

Thanks for posting that report. It is compreshensive and well written.

The tragic Dave Shaw incident had shocked the diving community in South Africa at the time and I presume the international diving community as well.

Dave Shaw's diving video was also broadcasted on South African television. It was truly a tragic incident.