"Sir Thomas of Cannondale" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:15:26 -0800 (PST), Bob said:

For the same reason that once enjoyed sport scuba alone,,,

I wouldn't dive alone on a bet. Navy training I guess. (Of course at this
point I prolly wouldn't dive at all. It's been about 35 years since I
did.)

I sold a sailboat to a young guy, back around early 90's. He gave me a
deposit,
was supposed to pick up the equipment and give me the balance the
following
week.. That weekend he died in a diving accident. Why? Because he stayed
down by himself when his partner gave him the signal that she was low on
air.

He got caught on some wire on the bottom of Gloucester harbor or
thereabouts.

Dead..

There is a reason not to dive alone.
I found that out the hard way a long time ago. It was in the Mediterranean
and I joined a diving school. We had done the pool based course and were off
an island doing our first real dives.We were all low on air so we came up
and the others got out.. I was still breathing Ok and had not activated the
reserve supply so the instructor let me go down again. I was a novice and
did not realise he should not have done so. I went down about 20' and when
it became hard to draw breath I reached to pull down the lever to activate
the reserve, only to find it was already down, having presumably caught
something while I was in the boat so all the air was gone, including the
reserve.
.. I kicked off the bottom and just made it up-probably got a little bit more
air from the bottle as the pressure fell but the fresh air felt really good.
Another hard learned lesson-and it was a well regarded diving school too,
not a cowboy outfit..