Reply to: Monday Links from the Bench vol. CDXLI

[DS23]

Still kicking around. I'm taking three months off contracting to renovate/Improve my house.

eek
Stay away from power tools!

what uncle albert said!

[NickFitz]

Still kicking around. I'm taking three months off contracting to renovate/Improve my house.

Hi Diver! <- manly

[Uncle Albert]

Still kicking around. I'm taking three months off contracting to renovate/Improve my house.

eek
Stay away from power tools!

[Diver]

raising the dead. wow, that was a helluva read. i had to stop everything and finish that. has anyone seen diver?

Still kicking around. I'm taking three months off contracting to renovate/Improve my house.

[GreenMirror]

raising the dead. wow, that was a helluva read. i had to stop everything and finish that. has anyone seen diver?

He is still doing great!

[PhiltheGreek]

I'm not sure you can get down to 75 meters in muff so he should be OK.

You know your mrs will be doing just that this weekend to prove you wrong.

[northernladuk]

has anyone seen diver?

I'm not sure you can get down to 75 meters in muff so he should be OK.

[DS23]

raising the dead. wow, that was a helluva read. i had to stop everything and finish that. has anyone seen diver?

[northernladuk]

75 meters is the deepest i ever did, and That was intense enough, thanks.
those guys are nutters. - still don't deserve that though.

Had a bit of a look around to see if there was any other deep dive stories and the guy in the article is pretty well documented on other pages, the Wikipedia page on deep diving for example. Grim reading though as most of them mentioned also died sometime later on dives. Even the Guinness book of world records have stopped logging the dives as records due to the high mortality rate. These guys work right on the very edge of what is possible. I am sure they make many successful dives so not quite as bad as the page makes but it inevitably seems to end up badly at some point.

In deference to the high death rate, the Guinness World Records ceased to publish records on deep air dives in mid-2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_diving

I might have missed it in the article but there is a book on the Shaw dive. I imagine it's longer and more detailed than the article so could be worth a read but I'm wondering if the potted story in the article might have spoiled the read now we know the outcome etc.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-into-darkness

And another story of diving and it's ultimate end I came across while browsing the deep dive pages that could be worth a read..

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24036.The_Last_Dive

Not sure if they will be a good a read as that article in the links though. That was really gritty and too the point.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24036.The_Last_Dive

[BR14]

Blimey!! That was an intense read. I was going to say 'great stuff' but maybe that's not the best term. Found myself out of breath at the end. Good find.

75 meters is the deepest i ever did, and That was intense enough, thanks.
those guys are nutters. - still don't deserve that though.

[Uncle Albert]

Loved the WWI photos in colour, but come on, they are fake.

The guy on the left is taking a selfie.

Your selfie taking person looks very like our own ATW. I think SKA has perfected time travel.

[DimPrawn]

Loved the WWI photos in colour, but come on, they are fake.

The guy on the left is taking a selfie.

[DoctorStrangelove]

The cat thing is odd.

The late & much lamented StrangeloveMog never bit nor scratched me in 18 years.

Though next door's cat hates me, so I just leave the nasty little fecker alone.

[northernladuk]

I was so hoping he would figure it out and turn up alive.

Yeah same!!

[ladymuck]

Blimey!! That was an intense read. I was going to say 'great stuff' but maybe that's not the best term. Found myself out of breath at the end. Good find.

I was so hoping he would figure it out and turn up alive.