Flotsam & Jetsam

Flotsam & Jetsam In Depth Reef Creature Book Not Sheck Exley Dies Deep In Depth is the consumer newsletter Large Enough Sheck Exley, who literally for sport divers that reviews scuba destinations and equipment. We Someone should tell Paul wrote the book on cave diving accept no advertising. Humann, author of Reef Crea- (Basic Cave Diving, Best Publish- ture Identification, that he needs ing Co.), died in April trying to In Depth (ISSN 0895-2302, USPS to get back to work. A recent beat his own depth record of 001-198) is published monthly with the December and January issues study estimates the number of 881 feet. Sheck and his partner Jim Bowden of Austin, Texas, combined by Insightful Newsletters species that inhabit coral reefs Corp., 175 Great Neck Road, Suite to be 423,000. The current were diving in Pit 6350, also known as Zacaton, located 307, Great Neck, NY 11021. number of species that have Second-class postage paid at Great been named and described is north of Tampico, Mexico. Neck, NY and additional mailing only somewhere between office. POSTMASTER: Send 35,000 to 60,000. No wonder I Jim Bowden shot down to 925 address changes to In Depth, P.O. feet in 11 minutes, then began Box 831806, Richardson, TX 75083. don’t recognize a lot of the 1 things I see on a dive. his 16-tank, 8 ⁄2-hour ascent. Copyright ©1994 Insightful Sheck, who was trying to break Newsletters Corp. 1,000 feet, went deeper. Crown Diver Down Topside members of the team Staff Editor Both the Crown Diver and the reported that within 18 minutes Crown Islander, which have been of the beginning of the dive diving the Bahamas and the one of the two streams of Turks and Caicos, seem to be bubbles stopped. One theory is East Coast Editor out of the dive picture. The that Sheck experienced violent Crown Islander is said to be in dry tremors due to the rapid dock for a year and the Crown increase in pressure. West Coast Editor Diver is not accepting bookings. At their 800 number, no one Sheck’s body was recovered would say if or when they would when the team returned to the be running trips again. pit. They had not expected to recover the body because of the Contributing Editors depth and the 200 pounds of Crossed Legs to equipment that he was wearing. Cayman Brac However, his body became entangled in the equipment Getting to Cayman Brac has lines and was pulled to the Letters/Submissions never been easy: Cayman Air surface. Jim Bowden said, “All I To contact our editorial office, has only a few flights into the can say is that he was doing what write In Depth, P.O. Box 90215, Brac, and some days the planes he loved the most and did it Austin, TX, 78709. Call 512-891- don’t land until midnight. better than anybody in the world.” 9812. Fax 512-891-9813. Please Starting April 30, Gulfstream send stamped self-addressed International Airlines will be GMI Out? envelope if submissions are to be flying a Beechcraft 1900 to the returned. We are not responsible for Brac three times a week from We’ve had a few heated unsolicited manuscripts. Miami. As one editor put it, discussions about Motomarine Subscriptions/Address Changes “Imagine flying over Cuba in a camera repairs in this newslet- To subscribe, renew, change 19-seater with no head on a ter. Rumor is that GMI, the address, order books or back issues, two-hour flight after sucking American company which call 214-783-4316 or write In Depth, down a couple of Café Cubanos handles distribution and repair P.O. Box 831806, Richardson, TX at the Miami Airport.” Maybe for the Motormarine and other 75083. the price or the convenience Sea & Sea products, is to be will be worth it. replaced. 12 © 1994 Elephant Socks Publishing, Inc..

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