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Listen you guys: "flaming" means mail-bombing, and while I am very good
at it, and have a T-1 fiber optic link, I have never done it to the
list, only to a few of my favorites.Also, "slander" is something that is
not true. I have never "slandered".

 Getting back to the point. I am primarily an ocean diver, and the
evolution of my equipment is in response to that , not cave diving. On a
wreck, for example, the curent can come up and whip, much more of a
problem with drag than will ever be found in cave diving. Gear for ocean
needs to be far cleaner than cave, and you will find that the true
strokery out there has come from wreck diver imitations of mutant red
neck cave diver convolutions. Also, when you get hung up in a cave, the
knife usually solves the problem. In a wreck , you can be dealing with
wire and metal, and be pinned by the current.

 Trying to tell me that common sense in diving means nothing coming from
me because I am a "cave diver" is silly. Hose stuffing, butt-mounting,
helmet-wearing, etc. is all the more stupid in the ocean , and really
convoluting your gear and dressing up like a clown may in fact save your
life in cave diving by preventing you from getting too far into the
cave, and I certainly owe a "thank you" to all of the strokes out there
who have been kind enough to buffoonize themselves and their students to
the point that they can get nowhere near where the explorations are
taking place, leaving me tons of new cave to explore EVERY time I go
diving. HELLO!!, and I am a wreck diving from Ft Luderdale, as my friend
Ray knows from diving with me here.

   The strokes and instructors out there just tell you that I am this or
that, a Nazi, etc, when in fact if they had a clue, they would have
something to show for it. Ignore them, and do it right. Ask Tom Mount:
we sit down here all summer and catch all the lobsters, and then come up
there and smoke all the cave. Ft Lauderdale is the technical diving
capital of the world.
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