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The operation (Ocean Diving - Mims and Lavotti) is excellent, I have been
diving with them for years - they just set up the trips and they drive
the boat, it is the occasional stroke infestation that occurs due to no fault
of
the operator on any boat. I usually keep to myself, unless Mount is there, and
we discuss things,we agree, or we argue, but we know each other. The measure of
the truely officious stroke is the one that gets the "step aside for the
expert"
attitude that we are so familiar with in the cave community or the Northern
wreck divers.
This was demonstrated by one individual as soon as I got on the boat:
Bill and I had our single 80 open water rigs, as we were doing a weenie dive,
and my scooter, something which these people have never seen, and they don't
know it or me from "Adam". This immediately caused them to begin making fun,
and
then when Jim Mims, the operator , told us the current was howling, and he
wanted to drop a ball, I asked, "why?", not realizing that he had a boat full
of
manatees who needed a ball- I did not know any of them, and had ssumed they
could deal with a drift dive.
One particularly offensive trashbag full of jello told me to "get with the
program". Rather than make a scene on Jim's boat, I just waited to see what we
had here in the water, and I was not disappointed
This big time expert I beat by 500 psi on the dive, and so did Bill, and
Bill
checked his guages under pretense of looking at his bullshit hoseless stroke
computer and his backup pressure guages - - that is I had 500 more in my single
80, which I also decoed on , than he did in his dual OMS 121's jacked to the
moon, and he had deco bottles. I waited until he came off of the wreck, and
then
pulled the anchor, being sure to match his bottom time. He used SIX TIMES the
botom gas that I did - a real pro.
It is people like this that really make me hate being involved in a sport
full of people who are doing something they have no business doing, are scared
shitless of doing it, and are scared of all the wrong things, and do it to
prove
something. They then try to validate themselves by the degree to which they
think they have overcome their fear as demonstrated by all of the acoutrements
that make them feel better, when the real risk is still drowning, and if you
are
overburdened with useles and dangerous gear, this will happen sooner or later-
This is why I love to stick it in the face of the strokes -if they don't
know you, they condescend. The fact is that this piece of shit could not put my
deco bottles in for a cave dive, but not knowing who I am, he started on me
right away , thinking I was a novice diver, because I showed up with gear he
did
not understand, and a simple rig, just like most of the teck and cave community
will do to you, if they think for an instant that they are somehow higher up
the
tekkie food chain than you are, and if you let them, which I do not.
I suggest this slob, and any others like him, "get with the program".
On Sun, 07 Jul 1996, "Lance W. Vines" <vinesl@ne*.co*> wrote:
>george..
>
>who were you diving with(what dive operation)? i would like to steer clear
>of that operation...
>
>btw, what kind of dangerous configs did you see?
>
>
>v
>
>
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