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J. Shepherd writes: > > Hi Chris, I hope you're feeling better. > > I have to disagree with you on a couple of points. > > i) That ponies have no use. > > ii) That their discussion has no place on techdiver. > > Point i I'll leave for the moment. But on point two, can you > define techdiving in your terms? You may find that a lot of people > differ. Now, I may believe that it refers to people with more money than > sense and too much gear. You may believe it refers to diving in > environments beyond 'the norm'. <snip> Look, I am sorry that my question about pony bottles got everyone all flabergasted. The reason I post some border-line questions on the list is because this is the one place I know that there are some very advanced divers who might be willing to share their opinions and experience with me. What do you people want me to do, go ask my NAUI instructor about pony bottles? Maybe the guys with no teeth who work as divemasters on the boats down here will give it to me straight. I trust the information that I get here above the advice I would get from any of the above. Now, I know we don't want to turn this into rec.scuba. That place has a couple of people that know what they're talking about and the rest dive once a year on vacation. I know that even the *basic* training in NAUI is taught wrong. So I think that this forum can be used as a place where people who know that the agencies teach crap can come and get an idea of how to do it properly. That's all I'm going to say about it. I'd rather read 100 posts about pony bottle rigging than 100 posts about the politics of diving. Jeff. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | jjackson@se*.sb*.co* | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | If I had a nickname, I think I would want it to be "Prince of Weasels", | | because then I could go up and bite people and they would turn around and | | go, "What the-?" And then they would recognize me, and go, "Oh, it's you, | | the Prince of Weasels." --Jack Handey | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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