12 divers missing in the Red Sea

Let's hope they're found OK soon...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3546926.stm

- Keith

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 20:06:51 +0100, Keith S. wrote:

> Let's hope they're found OK soon...
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3546926.stm

Web page says they've found them. You do have to wonder how a dive boat
can manage to lose 12 divers, don't you?

Classic clueless journalism from the BBC website:

" The divers were probably using a "buddy system", where two divers link
together, our correspondent says."

Jason


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Jason" <jason.news.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
newsan.2004.08.08.20.01.32.177877@ntlworld.com.. .

> Classic clueless journalism from the BBC website:
>
> " The divers were probably using a "buddy system", where two divers link
> together, our correspondent says."
>
> Jason
>

Think the correspondent was explaining it so non divers could get the idea
behind the buddy system..
MarkW

nospam to scuba to reply

"Mark Williams" <mark.nospam.williams@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:2nnfmeF2ju13U1@uni-berlin.de...
> Jason" <jason.news.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> newsan.2004.08.08.20.01.32.177877@ntlworld.com.. .
>
> > Classic clueless journalism from the BBC website:
> >
> > " The divers were probably using a "buddy system", where two divers link
> > together, our correspondent says."
> >
> > Jason
> >
>
> Think the correspondent was explaining it so non divers could get the idea
> behind the buddy system..
> MarkW
>
> nospam to scuba to reply
>
>
>

I think a few trained divers could probably do with the concept being
explained too!

Cheers

Wilbo
(the 'other' Mark Williams)

> ...although fresh back from the Malin Head trip I went out today and
> other people were seasick and not me...
>
> nigelH
>

Hi Nigel

I read your report on Malin Hd, glad you enjoyed it bar the sea sickness!!
It is Lough Swilly....(check sp) the Laurentic is off....

We dive from Malin Hd and West so are well used to the swell but get lots of
sea sick divers....

As an addition, we are not responsible for the car batteries - but we have
heard reports of another dive boat charter who does -
see...http://tinyurl.com/6jd5t

Ka
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"Keith S." <false@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:2nnbu8F2dd7lU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Let's hope they're found OK soon...
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3546926.stm
>
> - Keith

As of 22:00 BST Sunday, BBC says they've been found *35 miles* from the dive
site. Some drift dive.

> Let's hope they're found OK soon...
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3546926.stm

Hmmm - 1 lost diver happens occasionally... 2 probably equally as often... 3
sometimes... 4 rarely... but 12, that's just being silly :O\

David

"Ka" <ka__kathie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cf64gr$9hm$1@dorito.esatclear.ie...
> > ...although fresh back from the Malin Head trip I went out today and
> > other people were seasick and not me...
> >
> > nigelH
> >
>
> Hi Nigel
>
> I read your report on Malin Hd, glad you enjoyed it bar the sea sickness!!
> It is Lough Swilly....(check sp) the Laurentic is off....
>
> We dive from Malin Hd and West so are well used to the swell but get lots
of
> sea sick divers....
>
> As an addition, we are not responsible for the car batteries - but we have
> heard reports of another dive boat charter who does -
> see...http://tinyurl.com/6jd5t
>
> Ka
> Learn and Explore
> www.diveology.com

The above post appeared on my computer in the middle of the "12 divers
mising in the Red Sea" thread. Can anyone explain why this should happen
when OE6 normally orders everything so neatly? (And please, no cheap gibes
about Microsoft products. It gets so tedious reading the smug responses of
those using other systems, when all I want is an reasoned explanation.)

Cliff.

Cliff Coggin wrote:
> "Ka" <ka__kathie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cf64gr$9hm$1@dorito.esatclear.ie...
>
>>>...although fresh back from the Malin Head trip I went out today and
>>>other people were seasick and not me...
>>>
>>>nigelH
>>>
>>
>>Hi Nigel
>>
>>I read your report on Malin Hd, glad you enjoyed it bar the sea sickness!!
>>It is Lough Swilly....(check sp) the Laurentic is off....
>>
>>We dive from Malin Hd and West so are well used to the swell but get lots
>
> of
>
>>sea sick divers....
>>
>>As an addition, we are not responsible for the car batteries - but we have
>>heard reports of another dive boat charter who does -
>>see...http://tinyurl.com/6jd5t
>>
>>Ka
>>Learn and Explore
>>www.diveology.com
>
>
> The above post appeared on my computer in the middle of the "12 divers
> mising in the Red Sea" thread. Can anyone explain why this should happen
> when OE6 normally orders everything so neatly? (And please, no cheap gibes
> about Microsoft products. It gets so tedious reading the smug responses of
> those using other systems, when all I want is an reasoned explanation.)
>
> Cliff.
>
>
Appeared in the same place for me, using mozilla.
Suspect operator error)
Graham

Cliff Coggin <clifford@ccoggin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> The above post appeared on my computer in the middle of the "12 divers
> mising in the Red Sea" thread. Can anyone explain why this should happen
> when OE6 normally orders everything so neatly?

It probably had the wrong "References: " element. Hey this is usenet and
the way stuff gets passed from place to place things must get mangled
some times.

I use three usenet servers to cover home and office use and what I post on one
sometimes never arrives on the others and the posting of the Malin Head write
up isn't on the BT one I'm using now. Where poor old OE6 is going to put a
reply may just be that it tries but gets it wrong. I'll forgive it. It is my usenet/mail
client of choice although I use OE-Quotefix to do colour coding of the reply levels
and to detrash the references a bit.

nigelH