Dont worry I'm still here Guy. Whilst decoing yesterday I gave some thought to 
the pretentious Mr Trimix, I put together the most fantastic slam to send him. 
Then I thought "no" just leave him be. Despite all that's discussed on this 
list, I believe that having the right attitude is the most fundamental and 
essential quality for "technical" diving so as to achieve objectives and 
survive if things go wrong. Its evident some of the people on this list do not 
have that attitude and I am satisfied given time, Darwinism will take care of 
them.

Best regards
Lawrence.


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From:  Guy Wittig
Sent:  21 August 1996 06:39
To:  techdiver@terra.net
Subject:  Re: Dive Planning - Replies 

Dear Trimix

RE:

>  Rich, you are trying to teach a pig to sing. This is a rec.scuba question
>  in the first place. 

I was under the impression that Tech diving was:

"including one or more of the following ...
 diving to more than 40m
 decompression diving
 using gas mixtures other than air etc "

At least that's what it says in that magazine for "the diving elite"

I don't know when you last did  rec. scuba training but it usually
tops out at " ... surface with 50bar left ..."

You don't have to help people learning tech diving, but you don't have to
scare them off with this type of shit.

Perhaps your definition of tech diving something like:

"including ALL of the following ...
  diving to more than 90m
  using gas mixtures which will not sustain life at <10m
  requiring decompression times of greater than 4 hours
  using a round (not square) light with side mounted battery
  using a tow behind scooter ..."

  (maybe we should add to this and put it on the Aquanaut
   home page so people don't use this archive if they are
   not worthy)

You could start a new certification agency and issue
"CERTIFIED 100% STROKE-FREE MADE IN THE USA SUPA-TECHIE" cards
to your mates. (I think this has already been done.)

Life is short, be happy.

Guy.


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