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I've also just finished reading this book and to be honest I was amazed they lasted as long as they did, admittedly they did a lot of dives in only a few years, but how much of it was spent in the local quarry? The descriptions of the dives done on the Andrea Doria where also an accident waiting to happen. I know this was all done over 10 years ago but doing deep air dives and then doing deco on O2 but sticking to an air deco plan was hardly cutting edge stuff. Why spend 2-3 hours hanging around on the shot line for no reason and why were they getting onto O2 at 60 feet or did I miss read that bit?
I don't think either of the Rouse's wanted to do the U-Who dive on the day but neither of them wanted to back down to the other and this ego trip ended up killing them both.
It was a good read and I'll probably read it again in the future although I did get a bit sick of the author going on about how things would have been different if in water communications had been used, I don't know of any sport/technical divers who use that sort of stuff even now.
Like the man said there is nothing down there worth dying for.
Cheers
Simon
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