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OK, have to take aim and take a pot-shot... GarlooEnt@ao*.co* wrote: > george > i don't know about all of the guys i've seen being strokes. > some of them seemed quite proficient in there diving. I know one of > them is on your team. i happen to like him a lot & i think he is an > excellent diver. but you still don't get the point. you & your team > do what you do quite well. No problems there, and glad to hear it from "GarlooEnt" especially. > but the type of extreme diving that you & i do is not the norm. we > represent maybe 10% of the total diving population (& i'm being > generous with the estimate-it used to be 1%). i was only referring to > your remark as being "slightly" over stated. That is a key point many of you diving "elite" overlook - you guys are pushing the envelope in most anyone's book, and I'd never question your gear, your planning, your profiles, etc., with regard to the dives you are doing. Unfortunately you overlook the 90% (or 99%) of divers that just "dive on vacation in the Caribbean/South Pacific/Red Sea" that may question agency-dictated mandates. Do you really expect an open-water wimp to invest in a Hogarthian rig, with manifolded doubles, to go dive 60fsw in the Keys? In the same breath, if any of these newbie divers think they can penetrate Wakulla, then by God, give 'em hell. Your typical (statistically speaking) diver can't comprehend and/or afford the "Doing it Right" rig, but might come out cheaper if they don't chase after the "technical" TransPac, bondage wings, excess gear, etc. Much like computers - I'd love to have a 200Mhz Pentium Pro with 128Mb RAM, 4Gb disk, 128kbps ISDN modem, 15" monitor, etc., but I just can't afford it. I use what works for me, within my budget, with adequate performance. But I'm mostly e-mail, so it works for me. If I wanted high-res graphics to download pics from Lucy Ho's i might adjust my configuration. But what I have now works, thank you very much. The only difference being if my PC crashes, I won't die (another important point). Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@ut*.ed*> certified by trial by fire -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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