Well now the thread has returned to noramality (whatever that is), I hope that if one person who has read this report stays alive because of it, then I will have hit the target.

Now some of this is my conjecture in that I cannot actually know what happened underwater, and some is fact:-

Nigel died because he was distracted from the dive. He had a new suit and was thinking about that, not the dive. Come to think of it, it wasn't a dive, it was actually a bouyancy check for the new suit. In 15m of water. He made an elementary mistake of not turning the control system on, (he had done a prebreathe etc 20 minutes before and then shut down the unit while suiting up) and I think he compounded that by not looking at his displays when he was in the water. I know he didn't turn on the power because when we recovered the body, the switches were in the OFF position. Unfortunately he's not the first to die like this, and I doubt he'll be the last.

So, you see how easy it is to die. On a 15m piddle about checking how much lead you need.

So, no matter what you are doing, check your PPO2. If you get distracted, if you stop thinking about what you are breathing, you die. Simple. Just don't let it be you. I really wouldn't want one of you guys to be doing CPR on a body while the Widow looks on. I have never felt so inadequate in my life.

So, next you you are out having a great dive, every time you look at your gauges, just say "Thanks Nigel". If that's his legacy, it's a good one. But I'd rather he was here to tell you himself.