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Most of us know something of the diving we do, and most of us
recognize something that is screwey when we see it. For example, a
friend of mine saw a show on some cave exploratory diving where the
divers were in sinkholes in the Everglades , looking at bones, and this
was mixed in with photos of caves. The divers all had single tank open
water gear. He knew something was wrong, as he had taken a cavern course
at Ginnie Springs, but how may people out there thought this was normal?

   Now take the films made of the usdct: here we have bailout gas
strapped to a scooter ( onoly a blithering idiot would do something like
that, but let's assume nobody notices the dependency of gas on scooter,
after all , the great and famous Bil Stone never though about it, but
then nobady wathcih realizes that this stroke knows noithing about
diving), and as divers, we know that the buoyancy of the scooters will
change dramaticly as the gas gets used, cousing a bad situation to turn
deadly. In the book, all these pathetic weenies can worry about is
whether they will have to deco before getting their buoyant scooters off
of the ceiling, again showing to all of us exactly how stupid these guys
really are.

   But consider this: potential divers see this nonsense, and think that
goofery on a grand scale is the way this is done. Then they see the way
we do it, and it all comes clear, except for that they have ben told
that we don;t know what we are doing. That is , unitl they waste theri
money emulating the "pros", anbd then find out how nice it is to do it
right.

   We need to get some films and articles out there, to show proper
diving, to get our concepts of proper diving fitness and prepartation
out there, adnd to be sure to take credit for what we have done in
diving, which is everything teh usdct calims it could do, but never has. 

   After all, they are advertising for divers right now. What they realy
need is more joint rolers and excuse makers.
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