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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:57:24 -0500
To: J Shepherd <jms@ho*.ed*.ac*.uk*>
Cc: <gmiiii@in*.co*>, techdiver@terra.net
Subject: Re: How to become a team (was: Am I a stoke?)
From: jjackson@mh*.sb*.co* (Jeffrey Jackson)
Organization: Salomon Bros. Inc
J. Shepherd writes:
> 
> 	giiii wrote:
> 
> 	  If you had somebody commmitted to your work, that could dive
> properly,you
> could probably find a good use for him as a team guy . We have a huge
> number of
> incredibly skilled guys to work with.
> 
> 
> 	And in it encapsulated the whole of the strength of the WKPP
> school of diving. Arguments about equipment, personal preference, etc
> all pale into insignificance beside the point that with a committed,
> fit, well trained buddy team; you can do anything. Two strokes in
> hogarthian gear are still going to screw up.
> 
> 	To anybody new - check out the recent hit rate. giiii has been
> dispensed diamonds left right and center. The rest of the time he's just
> funny and comes with a delete key.
> 
> 	To giiii, if you want to spread you sphere of influence, start
> hammering the buddy diving and team work aspect; less the 80 man crew,
> or even the half dozen on site, but the three man team underwater with
> proper skills, understanding and practices. This is a message which is
> not just relevant to cave divers in big holes in the ground but a lesson
> to all the basic divers out there.

I would agree with Jason. We all know by now how to rig our gear the "right"
way, or we're never going to learn. I would love to hear more about developing
the "team" approach to diving. Methods and philosophies.

Jeff.
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| jjackson@se*.sb*.co*                                                  |
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