Yes and when her body WAS recovered some of those involved told me there was NO sign of panic at all! It looked as if she methodically worked at trying to resolve the problem to the very end astounding! Some people are just driven to push the boundaries. It certainly wasn't lack of training or experience with her. we lose too many competent and skilled divers unnecessarilyInterestingly enough, I wonder if some people don't have a different reaction.
A while ago, a sometime ScubaBoard participant and avid cave explorer had a description of such an experience featured on her web site. She described a time when it looked like she was going to die deep in a cave. She had another occasion on another dive in which she ended her dive and left the cave to the enormous surprise of the recovery team that was preparing to look for her body. Reading all that made me wonder if she didn't actually get a thrill from experiences that would terrorize most people. I wondered if she didn't actually thrive on that feeling. I never met her, though, and I only read those things after her body was recovered deep in yet another cave.
Reading some of these posts reminded me of something that DID give me the willies on a dive. We dived a Mitchel Bomber in PNG. Before we went out for the dive the the Dive Op showed us some news clips of the crew and a clip of their final bombing run. We saw still pics of the crew and knew the history before we went out. It was just too eerie diving that wreck with so much knowledge! Knowing that the last time it was in the air, people were dying and fighting for their lives, that only four survived the crash and made it to shore all captured and executed except for the Captain who survived the war in POW camps:crying2: It is terrible what humans do to other humans.
I have dived wrecks I knew people died on but that one really hit home. Somehow it is different knowing people died tragicly in normal day to day activities like working or travel. The idea of those men fighting for the freedom of people they would never know, being prepared to and dieing for an ideal
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