I find that a lot of people who work dive boats smoke...the ones with a bit of sense do it while the divers are under water. The fact is that quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting almost any other drug, including heroin. I certainly don't condone it, but being an ex-smoker myself, I can understand it. Cheers. Lance Carlson wrote: ~ >Almost as screwed up as the time I overheard a guy at Cow saying how he >couldn't take the deco there without a puff (He would go downstream on an >"air break" to the air pocket, open his little ziplock and light up) He's >the same one who takes a big lung full right before descending and "holds >it as long as he can"........now you know where those butts come from >floating around on the surface. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Rodriguez [SMTP:mikey@ma*.co*] >Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:58 AM >To: Bob Sherwood >Cc: klind@al*.ne*; Joel Markwell; Techdiver; Cavers >Subject: Re: Smoking and Diving > >At 10:14 AM 6/22/00 -0400, Bob Sherwood wrote: > >>Add to that some prominent dive charter boats allow this practice as >well. >>Not only enabling the person who smokes to load toxins before their dives, >>but also putting paying non smoking divers in an uncomfortable position. > >It also makes for an interesting time when an oblivious smoker walks >near me as I set up my O2 bottles. Yikes! > >-Mike Rodriguez ><mikey@mi*.ne*> >http://www.mikey.net/aue >Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aq*.co*'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aq*.co*'. -- Paul Braunbehrens mailto:Bakalite@ba*.co* http://www.daw-mac.com Mailing list for digital audio on the mac
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