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> > ... America's funniest russian military videos ... > I do not consider such things funny, nor did dolphin-lovers and sport divers >at the time. Neither do I. Notice the lack of any smileys? What is quoted above is my personal flavor of dark, sarcastic humor. Sorry if misinterpreted. >Putting several different subjects into the same message makes life >difficult for readers who (like me) keep separate email folders for the >various aspects of diving that get discussed on techdiver and elsewhere. I tend to do it because it is annoying to me to log on and have 100+ individual messages in my file. I will try to adjust my ways in the future. >(3) The swear word is `damn' (participle `damned'); the wall to hold water >in is `dam' (participle `dammed')!! But often dams and the like are indeed >often also literally damns, for migratory fish! Now that was just another subconscious sardonic pun. I didn't even realize i'd done it... Honest. > That sort of deep long-duration work diver sounds like the sort of diver who may benefit from automatic closed-circuit nitrox sets, <<<when and if>>> they are ever made reasonably cheap and <<<completely reliable>>>. >Are they earning enough to buy replacement equipment and compressors when what they are using now wears out? This is the picture from the reports I have read: They earn enough to go back and get drunk/high, visit a house of ill repute, and perhaps feed their families for a week. They use only a mask, fins, tank, and regulator. They assend when their air runs out, and dive deeper and deeper because they have completely fished out the shallows. No money is spent on pressure gauges, or any other equipment or training. They basically dive until they cannot do it any longer because they are crippled. Even if they because seriously bent the boat captain won't bring them back in to shore for treatment if the catch is going good. They earn in a week what would take them several months to earn, and if I remember correctly they get about .50 to $1.00 per pound. The captain gets something like $5 per pound, (or cocain from local drug dealers who turn around and sell the lobster in order to launder their drug funds) and it grows exponentially as it is imported to the US. Even though many get permenantly crippled or die, there are plenty left to take their place because of the quick buck they can make at it. Even those who become seriously bent, and then recieve treatment, have been known to rest for a month and go back. It is a very pathetic situation, and hopefully will change for the better soon. Mark I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Newton
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