I agree with you on all of your points. My issues are with the use of the video on the Rebreather world site. This was domain was purchased recently and the resurrected video appeared front and centre. I have mentioned my issues with the impact of the video in light of the recent fatality. As you might suspect there is little room for discussion on this matter on Rebreatherworld. It is in the best interest or recreational sport of diving that issues, like the many that currently surround Add Helium have a place where they can be discussed, and alternative points of view reflected upon. Far to often these discussions are reduced to personal attacks and two interagent parties beating their chests screaming they are right.
To a degree, diving is still by and large self-governing. On a great many contentious issues there will always be diverse points of view, opinions so far to the right you can not agree with them in total and opinions so far to the left that you can not agree with them in total as well. These opinions are important as they make it easier for the majority to find the middle ground. The reasonable point of view and the best course of action. It allows people to make up their own minds according to there conscience.
To a degree, this process has been quashed on the internet. It provides only the illusion of free speech. You are at the mercy of the domain owner and search engines. Run afoul of Google and your website becomes next to unfindable. From a certain point of view, Peter purchased a successful website and a huge potential market for his products and method. I am not sure if the "there is a sucker born every minute" business model" has a place in the sport of diving.
In a way, there is a tremendous degree of frustration and futility in the courts. A young man, also named Peter, woke at 2:30 in the morning to a commotion in his truck parked outside. In an effort to protect his girlfriend he grabbed his shotgun and stepped out into the night. The man breaking into his truck then attacked him and pretended to have a gun. For his efforts, he received a couple of twelve gauge rounds in the chest that were fatal. After two years of floating around in the courts, he was, of course, found not guilty. He lost his house and his savings everything he owned paying for legal fees. There is a high cost to being not guilty in Ontario. He is currently being sued by the family for two million dollars in a related civil action. While we have no way of knowing how Peter's legal problems will work out, the one thing we can be sure of is that there will be no winners. Lawyers will get rich and justice will remain out of reach for all parties concerned.
Thank you again for taking the time to review the matter and your opinions.