Diving Accident in Florida Keys

[Terry]

                    I have about a dozen dives on the Grove, a dandy wreck, but tricky in a number of ways, first, shes HUGE! at 530' in length with a total of 8! bouys on her, shes well lit, by that I mean shes open to allow natural light to penetrate along her beams, has usually real decent vis. and so she "feels" shallower then she actually is, (60' min. to the uppermost deck, 141' at the bottom of the props) (any deeper requires a shovel) and shes fascinating, now (thanks to a hurricaine) almost perfectly upright (to within 4 feet of level, port to starboard) has a real neat selection of machine tools still on board in their shop, real cool equipment in the radar room, list of names on a bronze sign on her port beam to list $ sponsers, intact johns, painted on "snoopy" as a ships mascot, etc,,,,and there are some shops in So. Fla that will do, back to back dives on the Grove, pretty much "requiring" the second dive, be a full blown deco dive. The other tricky factor is current that can be effectively non-existant on the way in but whipping you like a flag, REQUIRING hand over hand asscent to stay on the line, on the way out, and all thru your stops.
                  I agree with my friend Steve that the article was poorly written AND the numbers dont jive, I agree with Mark that his buddy, potentially "could" of prevented this, and I agree with Jason that you do need to be responsible for your own air consumption, and that he almost surely bolted, or missed required stops to end up hit that hard. I do wonder why CDNN? never reports ANYTHING except dive injurys and deaths, if I'd read some of their stuff before being certified, I would of just learned to skydive with homemade chutes, because it seemed much safer.      TRINITY