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Old 01/10/2008, 11:55 PM
cortez marine cortez marine is offline
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The pressure came from the American manager who knows better.
I warned him several times about this....on 100 foot fish!
I had no idea he then pushed them to go even deeper.
That means it was really unneccessary and more scandalous.
He worked Vanuatu as well and prepped it to sell to the new guys. They continued the program using imported Filipino divers to go super deep and sure enough, a good guy died of the bends.
The way they still go for hooded wrase, ventralis, scotts wrasse and pictilis is still very dangerous.
The odds are for more deaths to come as the "good season" rolls in .
Some of the divers are resigning as their contracts expire.
Steve