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--------------76D7F0A4FAE68A7F36BCD2B5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NO NO NO Luke Utley wrote: > This is a rant, but it has been on my mind since my wife and I are > looking for a cave instructor. > > It seems pretty self evident that no one in their right mind would > choose this type of instructor, but you wouldn't know it from what I > saw at Peacock a couple of weeks ago. There was an advanced cave > class going on and the instructor was HUGE! I mean, so overweight > that by the time he had made it down the stairs, his face was blood > red-it looked like he was going to pop. On top of that, he had an > "assistant" who was trying out a new setup (sidemount I think) during > the class. One would think that an obvious consideration when picking > an instructor would be "if something goes wrong, will he/she be able > to get me out of there". Guess common sense ain't so common. > Luke > >> Subject: Vote >> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:53:38 -0400 >> From: "Mike Bruic" <mikebruic@di*.co*> >> To: "Trey" <trey@ne*.co*> >> >> George, have everyone get on cavers that are on the private e-groups >> vote on this one. <I have a simple question for "all" the members of >> this list. Would you, or would you not let someone who is obese, had >> a heart attack and/or stroke take a child or loved one of yours into >> a cave for instruction? All that is needed in your reply is a "yes" >> or "no". Please feel free however to make any other comments for or >> against that you wish too.> Bruic >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: quest-unsubscribe@gu*.co* >> For additional commands, e-mail: quest-help@gu*.co* >> -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. J. Devin Mackenzie phone: +44 1223 337285 Optoelectronics Group e-mail: jdm49@ca*.ac*.uk* Cavendish Laboratory Department of Physics University of Cambridge Cambridge UK --------------76D7F0A4FAE68A7F36BCD2B5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> NO NO NO <p>Luke Utley wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>This is a rant, but it has been on my mind since my wife and I are looking for a cave instructor. <p>It seems pretty self evident that no one in their right mind would choose this type of instructor, but you wouldn't know it from what I saw at Peacock a couple of weeks ago. There was an advanced cave class going on and the instructor was HUGE! I mean, so overweight that by the time he had made it down the stairs, his face was blood red-it looked like he was going to pop. On top of that, he had an "assistant" who was trying out a new setup (sidemount I think) during the class. One would think that an obvious consideration when picking an instructor would be "if something goes wrong, will he/she be able to get me out of there". Guess common sense ain't so common. <br>Luke <blockquote TYPE=CITE><nobr><b>Subject: </b>Vote</nobr> <br><nobr><b>Date: </b>Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:53:38 -0400</nobr> <br><nobr><b>From: </b>"Mike Bruic" <mikebruic@di*.co*></nobr> <br><nobr><b>To: </b>"Trey" <trey@ne*.co*></nobr> <p><style></style> George, have everyone get on cavers that are on the private e-groups vote on this one. <I have a simple question for "all" the members of this list. Would you, or would you not let someone who is obese, had a heart attack and/or stroke take a child or loved one of yours into a cave for instruction? All that is needed in your reply is a "yes" or "no". Please feel free however to make any other comments for or against that you wish too.> Bruic <pre WRAP> <hr WIDTH="90%" SIZE=4>--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: quest-unsubscribe@gu*.co* For additional commands, e-mail: quest-help@gu*.co*</pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>-- <br>_______________________________________________________________________ <br>Dr. J. Devin Mackenzie phone: +44 1223 337285 <br>Optoelectronics Group e-mail: jdm49@ca*.ac*.uk* <br>Cavendish Laboratory <br>Department of Physics <br>University of Cambridge <br>Cambridge UK <br> </body> </html> --------------76D7F0A4FAE68A7F36BCD2B5--
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