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CharlieT)
The facts are clearly presented and backed up.
Agree
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Why are some RBW members AGAIN entering into pointless and offensive debate and speculation?
Sorry to anyone that took anything that I wrote as speculation - I was testing the hypotheses behind someone elses speculation. I certainly wished to cause no offense and tried to make that clear. There was a separate thread for expression of condolences - that is not polluted by this discussion and I would never have posted my comments to that.
However, I do feel that speculation that is based on a misreading of a report or a lack of understanding of a unit (I believe that both apply here and I have seen both any number of times in other discussions) should be challenged. Someone said in another thread about pre-reading for a Mod 1 course that one of the dangers of reading RBW is that the information is sometimes wrong - do we want to let inaccurate speculation on a thread like this stand?
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Why is it not good enough that someone has taken the trouble to post this report?
There is nothing new to be learnt from this incident that hasn't been posted and discussed many times before on this site. Stuart's "Minimising CCR Fatalities" article also covers the importance of pre-dive and early dive procedures.
The poor man made a mistake, let's leave it at that.
Agree, but berating people for speculating isn't the right approach (unless they are genuinely offensive, which I don't think anyone here has been). Addressing their speculation is, IMHO.
Just my 0.2p worth,
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