by Rhoody | Jan 8, 2010 | Diving Stories
DON SHIRLEY SURVIVED that day, but he didn’t walk away unscathed. He emerged from the recompression chamber at Bushman’s, which was pressurized to a depth of 98 feet to shrink the helium bubble in his head, after seven hours, disoriented and barely able to...
by Rhoody | Nov 13, 2009 | Diving Stories
This part goes mainly about the terrible experience of Don Shirley, who got in deep trouble on his long way up after his malfunctioning apparatus. IT WAS 7 P.M. SATURDAY EVENING in Hong Kong, and Ann Shaw was in her living room. Her 21-year-old daughter, Lisa, was...
by Rhoody | Oct 26, 2009 | Diving Stories
Shaw is dead and Shirley in big trouble. A extreme Situation for all involved. Read here in Par 6 of Raising the Death what was going on in Bushmans Hole and on the surface. Raising the Death – Part 6 BACK ON THE SURFACE, van Schaik and the crowd around the...
by Rhoody | Sep 11, 2009 | Diving Stories
This part of the story is about the BIG DIVE, how Dave Shaw and Don Shirley called the try to recover the dead body of the young Deon Dryer. All preparation is done and it was the day to do something no human being did before. What happens down the bottom in Bushmans...
by Rhoody | Aug 29, 2009 | Diving Stories
In Part 4 of Raising the Dead it is all about the last days before the “Big Dive”. The last words of Dave Shaw to his wife; the arrival in South Africa, the preparation at Bushmans hole and the last briefing with his crew…. with words which became...
by Rhoody | Aug 16, 2009 | Diving Stories
This is the 3rd part of raising the dead. I want to mention again that it is a copy-paste. In this part you can read where Dave Shaw comes from and how he got into extreme-diving. When he met Don Shirley and how they became partners on numerous adventures. Raising the...
