At 07:28 AM 4/12/00 -0700, Todd Baldi wrote:
>George,
>
>
>I couldn't agree with you more on this subject. I
>worked for 10 years for one of the world's largest
>scuba retailers while going high school and college. I
>got to see how hypocritical most divers were on a day
>to day basis. They would come in totally out of shape
>and tell me what big dives they did. My favorite was

I have just heard my favorite this weekend, the diver is lucky I was not 
there to hear it. But as it was told to me the diver telling someone in the 
shop how he had dived the "Edmund Fitzgerald" when someone who knew the 
wreck and how deep it was told him it was over 500ft, his answer was," they 
must have dropped me on the wrong wreck". The real funny part is I have 
seen his picture in the "Dan mag" as a big wheel.

I found out early who was the real deal around here and who was not. I was 
bashed and talked about ( still am by some) by all the instructors who 
thought they were the kings of diving around here. They can repeat the 
words right out of the text book WORD for WORD. Most of that stuff does not 
mean anything to me and I do not memorize it. NONE of those guys can or 
will do underwater what I can. With the help of Cobb and Widen (Who help me 
start VBtech) no one else in this area has the combined knowledge we do, 
and we really do the dives. So we don't have to lie about it. I would 
suggest that other areas do the same and form a group for once a month 
meetings on techdiving, you would be amazed at what you can learn as a group.








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