cdiver2
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simbrooks:I think they were just looking for further confirmation of some of these bizarre sounding deaths even if the link leads to a newer resource/reprint.
Even so, shame to see those deaths, people really need to think. About half of those examples were about weight, the other half or so seemed to be about not having things hooked up, with a few other cases in there. All you need as ditchable weight is the amount equivalent to the gas you are using and be weighted to be neutral near the surface at a low tank pressure - sure many of you have heard this before, but people (at least these fatal examples) dont seem to be doing it.
PANIC I think a lot of situations could have been rectified if a calm head had prevailed. The guy that jumped over with just a weight belt on, I know stupid but had he just released it he would have come up. Entanglement I have been entangled in fishing lines three times whilst solo diving, my solution sit on the bottom take out the knife and cut it away.