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I am tired of listening to the dim wits who have never done
anything in their lives tell me how diving deep on air is a good idea.
The fact is that the narcotic effects of nitrogen are well established
long ago, and the mind-numbing effects of the higher order beain
functions, such as judgement, being the first effected, lead the
weak-minded to the belief that they are "good deep on air" or that they
are "comfortable". Of course they are comfortable, just as they are
comfortable on any anesthetic.
Deep air diving is nothing more or less than addicive drug abuse,
and you will notice that the abusers are consistent repeaters, and will
do anything to protect their "supply" of deep air with arguments so
inane and so ridden with denial that I have only seen their equivalent
in one of my other activities, as a director of the largest non-profit
drug and alchohol abuse treatment center in the U.S. Only here have I
seen this degree of bullshit out of addicts, and listening to you deep
air advocates, I can not tell you from the heroin, cocaine, and alchohol
abusers we have to deal with everyday. In fact, most crack addicts that
we treat are more intelligent and more coherent than most cave diving
farm animals out there, even the ones the police bring in handcuffed and
convulsing.
I have no patience for this kind of mentality , or this kind of
stupidity. None of you can justify it. What we have here is everything
from the extreme abusers, like the Three Stooges, all the way to the
glue-sniffing 150-200 footers like most of the petty-ante idiots out
there. Do you guys drool in anticipation of your next deep air dive?
Notice in the last Deeptek magazine before the Slob took over ( now a
Deepair infomercial for stupidity and high risk behavior) where he
praises such fine examples of deep air pioneerism as the best-known
example of a stroke in diving - a stroke so stupid as to have lost no
less than seven buddies deep air diving, and known for countless more
clusters of epic proportion - the kind of idiot well-represented in deep
air lore - a power of example and a poster-boy stroke, whose name
everyone knows in association with stokery of the highest magnitude. One
guess at this one. Separately, one guess at who has the top body count
in deep air diving - one guess is all it takes ( not the same person).
The fact is that at WKPP we long ago discovered the inefficiency and
danger of deep air, high ppo2's, and the combination ( deep nitrox) as
we came off of mix onto deco gases or as we tried to conduct
sophisticated dive objectives . We no longer use high PPN2's. We also
discovered that the decompression off of high PPN2's was all but
impossible without symptoms, and we attribute this to damage caused by
them. We use helium-based mixes now instead.
We needed only one deep air death to quit using deep air in caves,
and only a tad more evidence to quit doing it altogether. We recently (
in the last year) quit using air for any prupose, or any phase of deco,
other than shallow sinkhole support diving. Deep support is done on
helium-based mixes.
If you are being told to dive deep air , you are talking to a
moron. The most insideous thing about even midlly deep air is that you
can not really tell you are impaired, and as such are far more dangerous
than if you knew it. Have you ever tried to take the car keys away from
a drunk? That is what you guys look like to me: glue-sniffing,
farm-animal stupid half-wit drug addicts who are trying to prtect thier
supply of deep air. When any of you deep air strokes accomplishes
anything, I will kiss your butt in Macy's window.
Deep air is for idiots - and we all know who you are.
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