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A Remembrance

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Stephan Whelan

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On October 23rd 2005 two of our very dear members, Alison (a Team Leader) and Dick Splash (Colin) were involved in a car accident that took them away from this community.

In an effort to remember them I am posting this message to say to them both, where ever they are, that we remember them and will never forget the joy and laughter they brought to this community.

I am not going to say any more but for those new members (as well as our longer standing members) - here are two threads that remind us of what happened and how the community reacted:
  • [ame="http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=63845"]Alison and Dick Splash[/ame]
  • [ame="http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=63853"]For Alison[/ame]
 
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Noticed Island_Sand's tribute and Spaghetti's memorial... now your thread. That is unspeakably tragic. I am so sorry to learn of it a year later. May their legacy of kindness and friendship live on as it surely has. Warmest thoughts to you and all their family and friends.
 
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Being fairly new to this community I feel I’m not qualified to comment on this thread other than to say my thoughts go out to the people left behind, and I feel humbled to be part of a community that cares so much about its own.
 
I am fortunate enough to have known her for the brief time that I did. My last memory of her involves a very tragic irony as one of her final posts was on October 21st as Hurricane Wilma plotted it's course directly through my back yard.

I wrote, "Let me define unlucky: "Unlucky is having two homes that are 160 miles (257 kilometers) apart, and both of them are exactly in the path of the same hurricane!" She wrote in reply, "I might beg to differ, unlucky is loosing you life." Days later, ..................she had unexpectedly lost her own.

Alison, now that you and Colin are angels, perhaps you could keep an eye on the rest of us and help protect us from our own worst selves?
 
The greatest people tend to leave us way before we expect them too.

They will be sorely missed :(
 
Can't believe it was a year ago, still feels like yesterday.

I only had a few "conversations" with Alison, and only ever electronically and yet if felt like a massive loss. Made me reconsider completely how much I value my "email" and "internet" friends and how someone we never met can have such a bearing on our lives.

In the times I spoke to her, she was a great mate and always stuck up for me on the days when the rest of Deeper Blue were attacking my sometimes edgy views!

I know she is much missed..... hello out there wherever you are

and

Sara - how come we haven't learned to spearfish yet?
 
Dick Splash? roflroflrofl
What a bloody name for goodness sake! Who else?

I think their time came 10 months earlier in Sri Lanka but the embarassing droplet was far to pig headed to accept that so easily, what an epic that must have been. I know they suffered the torments of the damned in the months that followed. I guess not many people were aware how much they suffered in private, they always hid it with their humour and exessive freindlyness. I think that some higher force wasn't going to let them get away with it.

Alison was the best spearfisher I ever met and not by a little either, when it came to putting fish on a stringer she was second to none; I think her knowledge of equipment wasn't in the same league but her practical skills put every other spearo I have ever dived with firmly in the shade. The droplet however was another story :) he only fished to be with the love of his life, which on balance was just as well because if he had been any good there would be sod all for the rest of us to catch.

Well you two, I'm glad you went together, seeing one of my best freinds dealing with the loss of the other would have been total pants! Besides, there's more fish in the sea for me now :)

So long
 
I thought I was over the loss but seeing Spaghetti's memorial, the tears well up again. If it were not for Alison, I doubt that i'd still be here in any capacity, let alone a member of the staff. Such is the power of personality. Does The Light have only one Heaven or does The Light give us the Heaven we need? If the latter is true, then their seas are always warm, the visiability always 100' and the fish both huge and just wary enough to be fun. RIP Alison and Colin.
 
I remembered Alison stacks yesterday. Spent the whole day at the dive centre and at the end of it Paul took me down to the beach to go kayaking.

Alison loved the ocean and I remember her every time I see it. I can't say anymore, I just miss her as she was a huge part of my life as you all know. Not a day goes past without remembering something about her, she was as wicked as they come and kept me smiling many a day.

I didn't know Colin well but he exchanged a few pms with me when he arranged a secret trip away for Alison and some mates. They were a fantastic couple and in the words of Pastor they could not not have lived in this world without each other. :inlove


Rest in peace my girl. :)
 
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If your friends and family remember you, you're not dead, you're just somewhere else. I count myself a friend and I remember you.

Dave
 
Alison was the first to reply to my very first post that i ever made here on Deeperblue, and played a very important role in sparking my enthusiasm for spearfishing! Untill today i thought that she had just moved to a tropical paridise with no internet, and so i found it almost surreal to find that she has passed away.

It feels like someone has just slapped me... i did not have the pleasure of getting to know her or Colin as much as i would have liked to. However maybe i will meet them sometime from now in a place i do not know about. Condolences to all.

RIP guys.

Huw.
 
I didnt know either very well but their death shocked me and made me see how this is a real community not a virtual one. Th outpouring of grief showed how highly estemmed the were and still are. Hope they are enjoying their lives where ever they are.
 
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Oldsarge said:
I thought I was over the loss but seeing Spaghetti's memorial, the tears well up again.

You and me both, Sarge.......

Until we meet again, you two.....
 
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