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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 07:31:09 -0400
From: "G. Irvine" <gmirvine@sa*.ne*>
Organization: Woodville Karst Plain Project
To: Phil Clarke <phil.clarke@bt*.bt*.co*.uk*>
CC: "'techdiver@aquanaut.com'" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Follow-up
What BSAC wants from me is a discussion of dive logistics and doing
things safely - in other words, what we have learned in what we do
applied to the British club system, a perfect parallel. The link between
beginning diving as taught by BSAC and the more advanced stuff needs to
be pointed away from TDI and Gilliam, and I intend to do just that
merely by a show of track record. Gilliam has no diving that he can
discuss in any serious circles - he has absolutely nothing to offer
anyone. He knows absolutely nothing about what we do.

Gillaim is the one with death on his hands, and I am calling anyone who
involves themsleves wtih this guy "stupid". I am sure there are Brits
who are pissed about that, but then I didn't kill the man, did I. Any
way, despite the shock effect of my throwing the bullshit flag on this
senseless death from day one, everyone in the world now knows the truth
anyway - Rob's mistake was to involve himself with strokes - he broke
Rule Number One in diving: "Don't Dive With Strokes". Exley broke it,
and so did many others, who paid with their lives. Don't do it
yourselves.




Phil Clarke wrote:
> 
> >
> >Bozo:> I saw a message that comments on an all out effort by the
> >British diving community to rescind an invitation offered to George to
> >speak at a BSAC meeting in November.
> 
> Bollocks you did. The British diving community is a very distinct thing
> from the BSAC show, one of several trade & lecture shows held each year.
> 
> Bret Gilliam will be there, talking about filming humpbacks &
> hammerheads and his experiences of rebreather diving - and handy TDI
> instructors will be there to let people try an Atlantis rebreather in
> the pool. Serious stuff, huh?
> 
> >>  It seems ... the BSAC officials ... want nothing to do with [GI3]
> 
> the same free-thinking BSAC that approved the use of nitrox ages after
> the other UK bodies "thus reaffirming its status as the guiding light in
> UK sports diving", & is effectively vetoing other scuba organisations
> for applying for grants from the national lottery sports fund?
> 
> strange parallels with other events taking place ....
> 
> >> Personally, I hope he does go over there since it's unlikely he can
> >>escape with his head after the contemptible remarks made about fellow
> >>Brits like Rob Palmer and Rob Parker.
> 
> I hope so too. What he's got to offer is more important than a moral
> stance against users of naughty language.
> 
> Speaking of which, how much anti-George profanity do I have to cut thru
> to find constructive contributions from its authors?
> 
> Phil the Brit
> 
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