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Fake or not, anyone who posts something like that via Rocket Mail has no balls and has gone that route for a reason. Unless a post is straight from the poster's server, with a reasonable prospect that he is using his real name, treat him as a fraud. Anthony DeBoer wrote: > > Barry Miller <rat@ne*.co*> wrote: > > Here we go with more fake e-mail. Why do assholes like this hide = > >behind lies to try to discredit the WKPP. Dave Miner stops diving deep = > >and this guy says we are droping like flys. What ever gave this guy the = > >idea that he could dive at Wakulla? George may be the Project Leader, = > >but even he will tell you that the rest of us would VETO someone like = > >this. > > Barry, relax; even from up here on the far side of Toronto I can see that > this fellow isn't going to get to dive with the WKPP. Physical > condition, attitude, and a transpack add up to three strikes and you're > out, with a crew that'll probably do a "stroke arrest" on the first strike. > > I'm not sure it's a fake, either; he sounds much too sincere, as if he > honestly believed he was going to climb Mt. Everest. The "deco fraud" > he's talking about is the dawning realization that the IANTD training he > got doesn't automatically qualify him for real extreme diving like you're > doing, and that he'd look like a pretzel if he tried one of George's > schedules. Evidently his instructor oversold him on how he'd be a Big > Man (pun intended) if he took the course. > > Certainly the training he's gotten is good for some reasonably serious > diving, but you're as far ahead of him as he's ahead of a basic diver and > all of a sudden he's seeing the gap in front of him after having thought > he was near the top. Hearing George Irvine, widely regarded as the best > diver in the world, describing a dive as challenging and talking about > his brush with DCS must have woke this fellow up. > > I do have to admit, though, that after reading it I checked back to see > if it was posted on the first of this month. > > -- > Anthony DeBoer http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/ > adb@he*.re*.or* (here) > adb@ge*.co* (work) #include "std.disclaimer" > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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