vshearer
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My 7 year old daughter wants to know why daddy wants to go down in holes with bones and dead people.
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PBS ought to make a DVD of the original footage . . . It'd sell like hotcakes among us cave-diving-obsessed nutcakes
My understanding is that Jill's statement about rebreather deaths pertained to one particular unit (and I don't know which one) and was edited out of context. I suspect that, since she dives and teaches on rebreathers, and her screen name is RebreatherPro, she probably isn't real happy about what Nova did there.
Don't know how I missed this one but I did. Does anyone know how I can see or find it now? I saw one recently my wife rented from netflix called IMAX , Amazing Caves. It was awesome.
PBS ought to make a DVD of the original footage . . . It'd sell like hotcakes among us cave-diving-obsessed nutcakes
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Greetings fellow divers I watched the NOVA program and found it to be well done.
It has to be impossible task to edit 15 days of expedition into about 45 min. of finished run time. I agree with some of the comments that it was presented in a broad way to appeal to everyone divers or just your average person.
To respond to the dangerous hype drama, that is how untrained people respond to most extreme "risky" activity. I think it was meant to be part of the allure to catch viewers.
Those trained divers understand the risks and how to manage them. To the untrained it is like watching a space walk.
I would love to see the raw diving footage because I love what Wes and Jill do with a camera. It would be awesome.
The content of the expedition was very interesting and I really wish it had been a two hour special to get into the search and recovery of the fossils as well as follow the scientific process. Dating and identifying is awesome science to observe.
Over all I stick with it being well done. It is tough to cover so much information in such a short time. The hour was a teaser for me, I now am seeking out the rest of the footage!
CamG Keep diving....keep training....keep learning!