> keep asking myself, "Why are these guys trying to walk a hihwire between the 
> Twin Towers when they can get there by elevator?"

That's an excellent analogy for the question I keep asking myself about 
you....

> 
>   Rebreathers are real cute, but come on. So far, I am only believing Pyle 
> abvout taking the machine to remote places and going real deep to get new 
> species. I am only believing him because I want to believe him. The fact is,
I 
> have been down in enough submarines to know there is not a whole lot to dive
for 
> beyond the 300 zone, and I also konw that there are people who can do this
whith 
> the right equipment , and do.

You're talking about the Atlantic.  Come with me back to PNG next year - 
I'll show you more life at 350' than what you'll ever find on all the 
carribean reefs (dep & shallow) combined.  Hell, if we find a really 
obnoxious new species way in the back of some cave, I'll name it after you.

>   Rich, why don't you get your mentors to buy a boat and travel around diving 
> remote places, and make themselves usefull to science?

Don't I wish.  That's actually the long-term plan.  First I gotta get my 
Ph.D., and all this diving bullshit is getting in the way.  My Ph.D. has 
nothing to do with new species or even getting wet (except getting 
alchohol on my fingers when I pull dead fish out of jars).

Rich

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