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O.K., so I up'd the volume from 661 messages to 662 messages. Yours brought it to 663, and this clicks it up to 664. Sorry to have choked your inbox with my musings. Aloha, Rich > Rich, > For someone who started out complaining about the gibberish, you sure added a lot more to the pot. > > Barry > > ---------- > From: Richard Pyle[SMTP:deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*] > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 1997 11:29 AM > To: TechDiver > Subject: My goodness! > > > I just returned from a couple weeks of vacation with family and friends > for the holidays. After a gruelling flight home through serious > turbulence with our 18-month old daugther, you can imagine how delighted > I was to encounter 661 (no kidding) messages in my email inbox. > > Folks....this is nuts! Now, I know I should have unsubscribed before I > left and all, so I know it's my own fault. However, this experience has > illustrated so clearly to me the real signal:noise ratio of the list. > > I actually wish I had the time to sift through all this stuff, because > I'm sure there are some really funny parts. > > Most (almost all) of the bulk involves this whole independents thing. > I'd have to be a real masochist to jump into the fray, so I ain't gonna > take sides. I will point out that I respect the diving abilities of the > folks on both sides of the debates equally. > > I'll also add that my open-circuit trimix rig involves independent > primary gas supplies, and if I ever do another open-circuit trimix dive, > that is the rig I would use. HOWEVER: before you bombard me with > senseless, know-nothing dribble (which, I assure you, will be ignored), > please note that one of my primary cylinders contained trimix, and the > other contained nitrox, so a manifold would serve absolutely no purpose > whatsoever. I'm sure some will be tempted to bombard me with "deco gas > on the back is stupid" jibberish, but this will also be ignored because > my purpose and requirements for doing these dives are unlike those of anyone > else in the world (as far as I know), and only one person has ever suggested > an improvement to my rig that actually represented an improvement. > > O.K., enough of the rhetoric. Actually, I was prompted to write this in > respose to something George said. I know this is old for the rest of you, > but I just read it now... > > > The hanging spare bottles bullshit is vestigal > > eveidence of evolutionary interruptus - like you dopes are in the > > twilight zone. > > > A couple of things here: > > 1) Evoltionary Interruptus: I'm an evolutionary biologist, but I've never > heard the term "evolutionary interruptus". I kinda like it - especially > if it was intended to mean what I think it was intended to mean. > > 2) Hanging bottles: George, are you suggesting that it is not an optimal > solution to hang bottles on certian open-water dives? I hope not, > because you keep telling us you also know how to dive in open-water, and > I want to believe you - I REALLY do! Such an assertion is akin to someone > like me (a non-cave diver) saying something like, "The staging of spare > bottles on a cave dive bullshit is vestigal eveidence of evolutionary > interruptus". Get a grip, dude. > > 3) Twilight Zone: Do you mean in the sense of the coral reef environment I > like to spend my time in, or do you mean it more in the Rod Serling sense > (incidently, that bastard never gave me royalties for stealing my term). > > Aloha, > Rich > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > Richard Pyle Ichthyology, Bishop Museum 1525 Bernice St. Honolulu, HI 96817-0916 PH: (808) 848-4115 / FAX: (808) 841-8968 email: deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*
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