hunterb4
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The father and son well-trained cave and wreck divers who died after over-staying their time on the German sub in The Shadow Divers, has anyone the specifics as to why the son's line into where he was trapped was not useable for both father and son to follow back out to where they left their backup tanks. I understand it was badly tangled where the son worked trying to recover the canvas before he was trapped. But when his father rescued him, why did they not cut free of the tangle and follow that line out the way the father followed it in? Because they didn't, they went the wrong way exiting the sub, failed to find their backup bottles at the anchor line, and eventually made their deadly panic rush to the surface.
If we understand such details perhaps they won't be repeated. I wrote The Cave Divers in 1972 that hopefully prevented untrained cave divers from making basic mistakes such as using a polypropylene rope as a lifeline, and learning too late that being neutral in the water it can entangle both you and your companion if you get into trouble at depth.
I would appreciate any accurate feedback from any who know the details of this tragedy. My e-mail is hunterb4@gtcom.net
Thanks,
hunterb4
If we understand such details perhaps they won't be repeated. I wrote The Cave Divers in 1972 that hopefully prevented untrained cave divers from making basic mistakes such as using a polypropylene rope as a lifeline, and learning too late that being neutral in the water it can entangle both you and your companion if you get into trouble at depth.
I would appreciate any accurate feedback from any who know the details of this tragedy. My e-mail is hunterb4@gtcom.net
Thanks,
hunterb4