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From: <Tennantm@ao*.co*>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 00:53:54 -0400
To: deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*
cc: techdiver@terra.net, techvid@ne*.co*
Subject: RE: another story

Rich wrote:

Apparently I also missed the point on the Nat Geo/Bill Stone/Huatla 
post.  Could you explain to me what the point was?

Aloha,
Rich

Rich are you playing with me, trying to push my buttons, or is that a legit
question? ;-)  You have a pH. D. don't you?

Yeah, I guess you did miss it.  You mentioned something about football or
basketball or something when you referred to "out of bounds" or something
like that.  What was that all about?  Actually, your entire post sort of
confused me as I recall you saying that you did NOT cave dive NOR did you
care to.  But, it was posted to techdiver and the REAL issue wasn't cave
diving per se, but rather the bad name that cave exploration is getting from
bad publicity of needless deaths due to doing stupid shit.  You do remember,
the only thing the guy remembered about the show was that someone was killed.
 Is that the image you want everyone to get about cave diving?  OOOPS,
forgot!  You don't cave dive, so why would you care?  OK, how about Technical
diving?  You're a "Technical diver", right?  Rich, you are suppose to be
diving NO-TECH.  Technical diving is what the TRUE strokes
do..................  After the point was made in the post, then came the
slamming of Stone.  Who, for some reason you seem to be protecting like your
father.  OK, so you did buy one of his rebreathers.  BTW, how is that
port-a-pottie?  Done any caves with it?  How about some hard core wrecks?
 Been to Wakulla?  Tell you what, when you can dive your port-a-pottie
better, safer, further than George and ALL of the WKPP then I'll buy one.
 Hell, I'll buy two and swallow.  

Breathers, Caves..........Isler, you say?  Yes, he did it.  How many did he
take.........three?!?  How many did he use???  Hmmmmm, was it three?!? ;-)
 Pretty reliable.  I'm sorry, I just can not see anyone from the WKPP ever
bowing to the depts of strokery by towing in three sets of doubles completely
rigged incase the first two sets fail.  They wouldn't do that horrifying
shit.  They would use the right gear from the start, and get the job done as
they always do.  

See that, I covered both for you.  Use the right gear and don't do stupid
shit that will get you killed (like using the wrong gear) and give people the
image that cave divers are crazies with a death wish.  OR  don't have any
friends, and don't let anyone know what you are doing or where you are going,
and nobody will give a shit because nobody will know.  Furthermore, MR Joe
Public won't go around thinking that every cave diver is a nut.  But, you
already think cave divers are crazy anyhow.  

Hey, did you ever figure out how to flush your port-a-pottie and get a
sofnolime-espresso?


BTW, if this pisses you off and you can't laugh at it........then you need a
serious enema.  I know just the person.  ;-)


Mike

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