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Thank you for yet another valuable contribution. -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Waugh <jrwaugh@ix*.ne*.co*> To: Jess Armantrout <armantrout@wo*.at*.ne*> Cc: Techdiver <techdiver@aq*.co*>; cavers <cavers@cavers.com> Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 10:16 PM Subject: Re: Trout is alive and PISSED! >Sorry, but I don't eat fish! By the way, wasn't it way back in Open Water class >that they teach you that it is not a very good idea to heavily exert one's self >before a dive? I would think that a 7 kilometer hike in 100 degree heat, headed >into a Mexican jungle to do a 350' exploration dive is a really bad idea! I'm >sure your local PADI Training Facility can provide you with a SCUBA Refresher >course for a small fee. > >Have a nice day! Jeff > >Jess Armantrout wrote: > >> Well, I can see I can't leave you guys alone for a minute. I turn my back >> and you revert to the same old b.s. I can't even keep track of who is >> saying what, so I will just address the crap I have been able to wade >> through. Just that makes this a long enough post. >> >> JT seems to be running his mouth saying I wound up face down in Sally Ward >> and that is why I quit diving. Well, that is obviously bullshit. First, I >> haven't even dove there in a year and a half. Second, I'm still diving, >> more than all of the cyber divers on these lists. Appearantly he or >> somebody in his little clan didn't buy my story of "skin bends" as being a >> good enough reason to back off of the deep stuff so they made up their own >> story to suit there own needs. I wrote to JT asking him what the deal is >> but since he has refused to answer, and since I never actually saw the post, >> only had it forwarded to me, I will just take it up here. >> >> Hey, tough guy, we hiked 7 kilometers into the jungle of Mexico in 100 >> degree heat, did a 350' deep mixed gas exploration dive and upon surfacing I >> had severe soreness in the fat around my mid section. We call that >> slobitis, is a type of skin bends and it was most likely do to dehydration >> and the fact that deco from those depths is a little tough. Eight hours >> later, at three in the morning while sleeping in hammocks under mosquito >> netting in the jungle after having eaten food made by Mike Madden, I had >> some nausea and dizziness. The next day, I was better, dove shallow with my >> wife then hiked back out of the jungle. End of story. Don't try to read >> any more into. >> >> Then we have this other idiot Jeff Waugh taking pot shots at the WKPP >> because of pictures he saw in a magazine?!? First, suck my dick. Then, >> drag your sorry ass to Wakulla and find out how the WKPP does things, why >> they do things and why everybody always goes home at the end of the day. >> Nobody ever dives bottles on the right in the cave. Occasionally, a support >> diver ferrying bottles has 4 or more on each side. He has no light to >> crush, idiot, as he is in the basin. Even if he did, Barry Miller lights >> don't crush anyway. On occassion, at the last minute a gas diver is asked >> to drop a deco bottle off on his way in. To expedite the process, he throws >> it on his right chest D ring for the 100 foot or so scooter across the basin >> to the drop point. Big deal. The fact that this is the best shot you can >> take is further validation of how well the WKPP does things. >> >> For those actually out there trying to learn, stage bottles are always on >> the left because, primarily, to do other wise encumbers the deployment of >> the long hose. Obviously, anybody in the water at Wakulla knows this. >> Additionally, everybody knows that the scooter is driven with the right >> hand, not as easily accomplished with stage bottles on the right. Finally, >> and you won't know this until you put the whole package together, bottles on >> the left are the most slip stream efficient way to scooter. I have done >> five stages, all on the left plus tow 3 scooters, all where they go as well. >> >> Bigmouth Von bitches about 3 inch tall numbers on "duck" tape when most big >> time tech divers wouldn't know a correct bottle marking scheme if it walked >> up and slapped them on their over sized asses? Well, see my earlier >> suggestions to Jeff: Suck my dick then drag your ass down and see how >> things are done at the big pond. >> >> Then there's the clown who can't figure out the difference between 300 foot >> ocean dives and 300 foot cave dives. Fortunately, Peter covered that one >> and I don't have to. >> >> Finally, there is the rebreather list, but we just don't have time to cover >> that here. >> >> Who else needs pounding? I can't keep track. >> >> Now, I have my first triathalon coming up and I would like to get back to my >> training so will you idiots out there that don't have a clue what you're >> talking about please shut the hell up so I don't have to be bothered by your >> bullshit. >> >> Have a nice day, >> Trout >> >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aq*.co*'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aq*.co*'. > > > >
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