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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 07:38:46 -0400
From: "Erik C. Schmidt" <cavedivr@uf*.ed*>
To: Art Ranz <ajranz@fu*.ne*>
CC: cavers@cavers.com
Subject: Re: labeling reply to Bill Mee

This reminds me of the old saying used for Open Water and
self-proclaimed "Technical" divers...

A divers actual skills and abilities are inversely proportional to the
number of patches sewn to their wetsuit and gear bag...

-Erik

Art Ranz wrote:
> 
> When I read the original post of the long, confusing, convoluted tank
> marking 'standards', it brought back a vision of a patient's IV with 5
> yards of tape on the arm to hold it in place.  A tank with twenty stickers
> looks the same.  I could not help but remember an old saying in the medical
> world:
> 
> The quality of an IV ( intravenous line ) is indirectly proportional to the
> amount of tape it takes to make it run.
> 
> Art

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