Fatality in Sound of Mull

On 15 Mar 2004 22:50:13 GMT, celsiusheat@aol.com (CelsiusHeat) wrote:

>>I think it best that further conjecture is stopped until the full
>>story is made public. It can only add to the sadness felt by the
>>friends and family of the deceased.
>
>Whole-heartedly agreed, my thoughts and condolences are also with their family
>and friends....
>
>That aside, our friend does have a point. Virtually every incident we read of
>contains the report "Lost contact with buddy on accent".
>
>Perhaps we should make a bigger issue of this, I for one always keep my buddy
>in sight on accent even if in the periphery and make physical contact in high
>current / low viz…..

My unscientific gut feeling is that this may be effect more than
cause. If your buddy's inflators stick open and he goes up like a
Polaris missile then you'll loose contact.If you had a buddy line
connecting you then either you cut it or you get two casualties not
one.

I can think of plenty enough dives, generally in decent vis but with
currents, where a buddy line would be more likely to result in
casualties, not less. Imagine the damn thing as you got pulled through
a kelp forest?
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http://website.lineone.net/~york_bsac

>Hmm, I thought having a buddy is nice but not having one is not
>immediately life threatening as would be having no oxygen or no
>buoyancy. So there must be more to those incidents than losing your
>buddy which might as well be a result rather than the cause of
>something else going wrong.

Agreed, but if the victim hadn't lost his buddy there might have been a
different outcome.......

CelsiusHeat <celsiusheat@aol.com> skriver:
>>Hmm, I thought having a buddy is nice but not having one is not
>>immediately life threatening as would be having no oxygen or no
>>buoyancy. So there must be more to those incidents than losing your
>>buddy which might as well be a result rather than the cause of
>>something else going wrong.
>
> Agreed, but if the victim hadn't lost his buddy there might have been a
> different outcome.......

Yes a loot of different possibilites, from being two victimus i stead
of one to there beging no problem att all. There are cases where buddy
line might have helped and there are a loot of instances where the
buddy lines have resulted in a more grave accident.

/ Balp
--
http://anders.arnholm.nu/ Keep on Balping

Why can't you place all of your supposition and conjecture into a new
thread.

Show some respect as anybody reading only the last post in this thread
(10:54) could be led to a totally false conclusion.

I didn't realise we had so many Coronors on the Newsgroup! Or shall we
leave the Coronor decided the cause and concentrate on the fact that some
one has lost a buddy and a family has lost a loved one. From the
information presented so far lets and just stick to the one point we know a
death and that they will be feeling a great loss at this point in time and
we should extend our condolesces for their loss.
Keep the speculations and predjuice(opinion based on little or no facts) to
ourselves.

Keith

"Keith Manning" <NOSPAM@tesco.net> wrote in message
news:IlW5c.17$Os4.7@newsfe1-win...
> Why can't you place all of your supposition and conjecture into a new
> thread.
>
> Show some respect as anybody reading only the last post in this thread
> (10:54) could be led to a totally false conclusion.
>
>

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:48:28 +0100, Anders Arnholm
<Anders+news@Arnholm.nu> wrote:

>pinballwizarrd <pinballwizarrd@hotmail.com> skriver:
>> Steve Barlow <steve@steve-barlow.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:<anl85097tfmn1tg9hv4fma17n3lq675ee9@4ax.com>. ..
>
>> A read of the BSAC accident reports shows a high number of deaths
>> resulting from diver separation during ascent - which would be avoided
>> with good buddy drills and being roped together.

Anders get your attributes sorted I wrote fuck all about the BSAC
accident reports, and I think you are an unfeeling twat to be talking
about what may of happened at this time.

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Steve Barlow