Rob Stewart Investigation

[hroark2112]

Makes sense to me. Please don’t think I’m arguing with you. I’m really more thinking out loud and maybe someone else will pick up on something. I’d never argue with Bearing’s dad!

 

[Protondecay123]

“Another interesting revelation in these latest documents is the allegation that Stewart failed to disclose a pre-existing medical condition—a predisposition to black out. He talks about it in his book Save the Humans, but according to a court filing by Sotis, never bothered to mention that in his medical release when he began training, “Robert Stewart, either in whole or in part, caused the injury, incident and damages alleged… by knowingly failing to disclose pre-existing medical conditions that rendered him unfit for the commercial dive operation he was engaged in at the time of his death on three separate Medical Questionnaires administered to him by SOTIS and ADD HELIUM LLC.””

Huh. Stewart lied on his medical. That could never have been predicted.

Interesting that Stewart’s predisposition to “black out “ was so bad, that it was exactly the same as Peter Sotis’s "predisposition to blackout" in this case.

 

[wnissen]

You don’t do deco dives on an SCR and you don’t go that deep on an SCR. You can’t control your PO2 on an SCR. You don’t carry O2 on an SCR. Much different animals with just a few commonalities.

Interesting, so the fact that he was an instructor on an SCR may be less relevant than thought.

 

[Wookie]

Makes sense to me. Please don’t think I’m arguing with you. I’m really more thinking out loud and maybe someone else will pick up on something. I’d never argue with Bearing’s dad!

Oh, I do t think you’re arguing at all. Just explaining why the shop would have given him 10/50 even though he wasn’t technically certified for the gas.

 

[Protondecay123]

I wanted to let people know that I am not making any money from the small fee that is being asked for when you view the documentary. In fact I will never make money from this VOD. Right now the fee is going towards paying Vimeo for their service. Once that has been paid off (if ever) the money will go towards an environmental charity. My intention was never to make money only to give people in the United States and around the world a chance to see it. I had been getting a lot of emails asking.
Watch The Third Dive: The Death of Rob Stewart Online | Vimeo On Demand
https://www.amazon.ca/Third-Dive-Investigation-Death-Stewart/dp/1771603550

So if you aren't taking any money from this documentary, who funded the " 3 years of research"? Did you fund it yourself, or did someone pay you to do this documentary? It would seem to be a very expensive project that would take many hours and lots of travel to put together.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Already posted in this thread, post #199. I guess you don't read the posts?

That's probably in his best interest.

 

[Rose Robinson]

Oh, I absolutely agree with everything you wrote. I'm only interested in the instructor angle because the claim before was that the third dive was a "trust me" dive where Stewart came along as a relatively recent rebreather diver. But if he was an instructor on a Dräger unit it establishes a certain minimum experience that he would have had.

WN,

Fully agree, which still begs the question, did Mr. Stewart ever instruct anybody, on anything?

Or was it just cards for card sake?

I hire the services of a very talented embalmer from time to time. She works freelance, I believe her father dives with a Drager Dolphin.

I do not know the particulars of this piece of equipment, but, if one is proficient in a certain piece of equipment to the extent that this person is instructor qualified on it, then why risk a catastrophe, diving with a piece of equipment where it is apparent that full understanding of the equipment is yet to be learned?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge but it seems very strange that at these depths, you'd risk going back to Kindergarten, when you already had a university degree.

Rose.

 

[runsongas]

the dolphin is a markedly different piece of equipment that would not be suitable for the dive profile. a closer analogy would be going back to commercial driving school to learn how to drive 18 wheelers even if you work as a driving instructor already teaching teens how to drive passenger cars.

 

[MarkFlory]

The article says he was a “Trimix Instructor; Advanced Trimix Instructor; Extended Range Instructor; Advanced Gas Blending Instructor; Advanced Nitrox Instructor; Advanced Wreck Instructor; Decompression Procedures Instructor; and Equipment Specialist Instructor.”

I myself being OC Trimix diver before my CCR certs remember setting through the CCR Trimix class and the gas theory lessons are almost exactly the same. The only difference was the focus on dive planing with time limits connected to bail out gas supply and more of a focus on on your oxygen clock then in OC diving.
To me it’s a stretch with his Trimix certifications to say he didn’t realize the risk he was taking on that third dive.

 

[MarkFlory]

Advanced Trimix Instructor requirements from SDI

Advanced Trimix Instructor - SDI | TDI | ERDI | PFI