oldschoolto
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People will never understand what it is to be a Northeast Wreck diver.... Till they do it...
My thoughts are with you all....
Jim...
My thoughts are with you all....
Jim...
Diver missing on Andrea Doria
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True. The North Atlantic is a tough place to work on both sides of the pond, but it gets a LOT worse north of the Arctic Circle. The Doria is just deep enough to include serious decompression constraints, but isn't all that deep by today's standards. As a sat diver in 1973, we considered her a cupcake dive in terms of depth — but that didn't stop her from kicking our butts on the shallowest sat dive of my life. There is a bigger picture here than gas planning.
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kwinter
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Interesting that the article update mentions and quotes Bart Malone. He was the one I gave the spot to on the trip last week.
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Dr. Lecter
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Any new information on what could cause someone to go missing between 20' and the ladder? Even with currents being what they are and the diver perhaps not having a DPV (though diving a CCR on that wreck without one strikes me as an unlikely choice), that's really close to simply miscalculate and get blown off without anyone noticing.
A very well known Colorado diver and dive shop owner disappeared in similar circumstances at Cocos a number of years ago. As they were descending on a dive, he indicated that he was having trouble and was going to ascend. He signaled to his buddy to join the group below and not ascend with him. He was ascending from about 20 feet. He never made it. His body was never found. The speculation is that he suffered a heart attack during that ascent and never broke the surface.
Dr. Lecter
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Yet here we have the last report of the diver's condition as normal, decompression complete, ascending as planned rather than due to a problem. Certainly he could have had a heart attack in that short span of time, and maybe dismissed earlier warning signs rather than communicating them to the buddy during deco...but damn, that's some timing.
Would be interested to know more about the SP flown on the dive and deco...obviously he's not spiking above 1.6 between 20' and the surface, though.
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