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Cave Accident In Flordia - Bubblemaker - 10-05-2005
Re: Cave Accident In Flordia - Chris H - 10-05-2005
The moral of the story is that you should analze your gas before you use it, and pre dive drills/checks should be done.  Other than for a dive emergency, I can't think of any reason the isolator would be closed.
Re: Cave Accident In Flordia - divbum - 10-05-2005
I cannot even comment...
Re: Cave Accident In Flordia - schultz - 10-05-2005
Truly an unfortunate accident. My sympathies reach out to the family and friends affected by this tragedy.
A group at TDS has been talking in great depth about this accident, and in particular, the issue of filling doubles with a closed isolator valve... you can never be too careful when analyzing your mix.
You can find the thread here:
Re: Cave Accident In Flordia - WIdiver_Paul - 10-09-2005
That's our friend Greg Stanton in the article (you Wisconsin divers saw him at the Ghost Ships festival in front of the Diversions booth with the fancy Meg RB)- too bad for the diver and family. If I had to be involved in a dive accident, i'd feel lucky to have someone like Greg at hand to keep a cool head and accomplish the best rescue possible.
/ hats off
// making mental note to self to analyze every time, no matter the supplier, the mix, or the site. Complacency kills.
/// Looks guiltily in the mirror
Re: Cave Accident In Florida - Tol - 12-14-2005
Does anyone have any more information about this?
I'm pretty certain that Rudy was my OW instructor. I'm not tactless enough to call him for clarification, but I feel horrible for him. And I'm mighty curious. There can't be that many cave-diving Rudy Banks in that area of FL who have a mixing panel in their garage.
Damn, that's just horrible. So many "if onlys" in this situation.
Tol
Re: Cave Accident In Flordia - codecruncher - 05-25-2006
She has been discharged from the hospital.