Death on the Doria

[Lawrence Debono]

No Dinger you're not full of it! I agree with you 200% = it's the attitude. Over estimation of once ability is a recipe for death. And that is found a lot in this continent (unfortunately). You are totally right.

I was taught diving in the 80's with Saa in Malta and later preceded with TDI. I openly say that the Saa training was a GREAT foundation for my diving down the road. Even though I qualified into deco, trimix, etc, I still look back at certain tactics.  

Who knows may be one day we can set up a European Expedition to the Doria and clean her out from all the artifacts???  

Lawrence

[Dinger]

Lawerance,
I think it was Rob Evans who said he would give his left tit to get a dive on the Doria - I give my left ball to get on her.  Would love to get something of her and clear it out.

[Lawrence Debono]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Dinger @ Feb. 20 2004,10:00)]Lawerance,
I think it was Rob Evans who said he would give his left tit to get a dive on the Doria - I give my left ball to get on her.  Would love to get something of her and clear it out.

May be we should do it next year since its the aniversary of the sinking.

Lawrence

[Rob Evans]

Come to think of it, I'd give my right tit as well.  I'm a bluuurk, so shouldn't have tits in the first place.  
The Doria's a milestone - the depth isn't such a big deal nowadays (try saying that 30 yrs ago when the pioneers were having a go), but the difficulty of getting onto the wreck, the distance, the weather etc. She's a beauty and no mistake, but I'm much more interested the NJ 'Happy time' wrecks.

[Mark Chase]

Its easy to look at the dives on the Doria and say the divers were irrisponsible or gungho but did you check out the date of those dives???

Trimix was very very new. No one had tables for it they had to be specialy cut by the hyperbaric experts of the day and they were extreemly expensive. Helium bends were not understood and as they were running air tables they were getting hits due to no deep stops. The off gassing using pure or even 80% 02 was unherd of and 50% for deco was the norm. Again tables were new and experimental.

The Doria was the Everist of dives in the days of Air diving. Wrecks like the Lusitainia and the Britanic were undivable on air and we are talking about a period when Air was all there was to dive and Trimix was considered more risky to dive than Air.

Remember the FIRST He computer was invented in 2000 (By Kevin Gurr) Trimix is new and people forget that in 1995 there were only a handfull of recreational Trimix divers around. Trimix diving as we know it today didnt hapen untill the late 90's

ATB

Mark Chase

[Dinger]

Ok I have to ask - Mark what the fuck does ATB stand for - been racking my brains and have come up with several possibilities but am dying to know.
Dinger

[Rob Evans]

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[Rob Evans]

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[Rob Evans]

Angry Tall Blondes.  

Ooh now there's a thought, must put that into the 'Fantasies' thread.

[Rob Evans]

Also Tests Bananas

Oops, them dang fantasies again