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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 08:27:10 -0800
From: iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* (IANTD )
Subject: Re: Last word of gavin wasRe: Offensive paragraph?
To: "George M. Irvine III" <gmiiii@in*.co*>
Cc: cavers@ge*.co*
Cc: techdiver@terra.net
You wrote: 
>
>	
>
> Here it is, and I personally listened to Tom Mount and the rest of 
the NACD 
>Training Committee come close to swinging at Parker Turner in Gene 
Broome's dive 
>shop over these words which they objected to so violently that the 
book went 
>unpublished for seven years:
>
****George,  BULL SHIT!!!!, this is not what we battled over, the words 
that we battled over were his reference to not dive with anyone who 
does not breath the long hose. 

WE ALL AGREE ON SEEKING PERFECTION.BREATHING FROM A LONG OR SHORT HOSE 
DOES NOT MAKE ONE PERFECT!!!
This was not what kept the book from being published what kept the book 
from being published was like of communication and disorganization from 
the many people involved in its publishing process (not the authors)

AGAIN EVERYONE AGREED WITH THIS STATEMENT AND THEY STILL DO;
>      "...settle for nothing less than perfection. Those who do will 
discover on 
>their own the value of such effort. Those who don't will never quite 
understand 
>what the others are talking about." - Bill Gavin
>.

>
>    - George Irvine
>
>

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