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From: Dave H. Crusoe
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Wes Skiles
To: "Josh Rubinstein"
Cc: "Frank Binney" , "Fofo" , "Texas
Cavers"
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 3:57 PM
The National Geographic tribute:
http:/
Family's statement, courtesy of Jill Heinerth:
Wes Skiles' Family Statement:
Thursday, July, 22, 2010
1500PM
The Skiles family has asked me to distribute this statement:
Wes Skiles died while diving off West Palm Beach on Wednesday, July 21.
He was conducting a routine filming div
"Here in Hogtown we are crushed. Wes was the best, larger than life, a
motorcycle riding, beer drinking, bad joke telling, world traveling, deep
diving
superhero."
Amen to that. We're crushed here in Houston as well. I will miss him a great
deal.
The National Geographic tribute:
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/07/national-geographic-photographer-wes-skiles-dies.html
On Jul 22, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Josh Rubinstein wrote:
Here is some more information.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-geographic
Here is some more information.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-geographic-freelance-photographer-drowns-off-boynton-beach-817521.html
Josh
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Frank Binney wrote:
> Very sad news indeed. I was just looking at Wes' beautiful photography of
> the Bahama blue
Very sad news indeed. I was just looking at Wes' beautiful photography of
the Bahama blue holes in the new Nat Geo issue yesterday.
I served with Wes on a past NSS video salon jury and have a collection of
his programs--the best underwater cave imagery I've ever seen.
I'll be looking at his videos
This was posted on the NSS Cavers Forum, cave diving section by Forrest Wilson.
World class cavediving film maker, Wes Skiles, passed away yesterday (July 21).
He was working on a video off West Palm Marathon, FL. He was on a rebreather at
the time. I have no other details right now.
My condol
