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On Wed, 20 Jul 1994, Carl G Heinzl wrote: > Where did anyone get the idea that strong anti-tek feelings existed? > I haven't seen any stream of messages in which a general consensus > was formed that tek diving is bad. Skin Diver Magazine, I suspect. > as technical scuba. I believe that recreational scuba will be limited > and/or restricted sooner than technical diving 'cause I think > that the population in general will view rec's as everyday people > diving while they'll see tekies in a more mysterious light, often with > a purpose behind their diving (as opposed to just viewing the fishies). So...what are you saying?!?! .... That viewing the fishies isn't a legitimate purpose for tek diving?!?!? ;-> (Obligatory response from a tek-diving Ichthyologist). > Now, as far as the recreational divers, I haven't seen much anti-tek > sentiment on rec.scuba. The standard items get hashed, rehashed, and > rehashed again (e.g. bouyancy control, dive destinations, touching > the coral, PADI vs Naui vs SSI vs Joe Blow's Scuba School) and every > once in a while techdiver gets mentioned. I think we pick up a few > people on techdiver and life goes on in rec.scuba. Rebreathers get > mentioned every so often and there are normally a few posts that show > more how ignorant the person is about the subject than give any real > information. People from techdiver that still read rec.scuba quite often > jump in and correct any misinformation. My personal experience with the "little people" in the recreational community (in Dan's defense, I got the impression that he, like me, was being facetious) is that most people who find out of my deep diving practices are much too curious to think about lambasting me. There are a few who honestly believe I'm a menace to society sent by Satan to encourage all rec. divers to exceed their limits until they die, but not many (mostly either hyperbaric physician-types or people who hold little pieces of plastic in their wallets in high regard, most of whom have ever met me and none of whom have ever dived with me). The general reaction I get is: "Geez, you're CRAZY! So how do you do it? How deep do you go? YOUR NUTS! Tell me more...." (Incidently, there are very fine lines between "crazy", "brave" and "stupid", but that's the topic of another thread...) I haven't really met face-to-face with any animosity (although I occassionally hear about it going on behind my back), so my general feeling is that there isn't a lot of it out there. Aloha, Rich deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*
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