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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 07:24:59 -0500
From: "G. Irvine" <gmirvine@sa*.ne*>
Organization: Woodville Karst Plain Project
To: cavers <cavers@ge*.co*>
CC: techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: The Real "Issues"
Why does TDI go out of its way to attack the WKPP, why do
Rennaker, "Bird", Dooley and other CDS instructors make up lies about us
and send out complaints, and why do the usdct types agitate constantly
about us? 

      The answer is very simple: the information we develop makes them
look bad. Their gear styles they teach expose them as ignoramuses who
know nothing about diving or dive gear. Their philosopies on diving ,
phsyiology, and equipment are proven flawed.

       With TDI, it is real simple - they are justifiably afraid of
loing their insurance over deep air. We are the biggest opponents of
deep air diving, and our information, were it known by the insurance
companies, would put an end to the practice of teaching this. I intend
to get that information to the insurance companies. Bret Gilliaim's
tactic is to lie about me to prevent them beliving me, but they will
belive statistics.

       The FAS instructors, like Rennaker and co, are scared that anyone
who knows the score would never take a class from them, and they are
exactly right. Why go to bozons with farm animal iq's, no real diving
experience, proven lack of information and knowledge, and who are known
to be praciticng morons? Why deal with drooling goobers when you can go
to the pros? 

       Why would somebody go to bird ostriech and take trimix from a
stroke who is not involved with any trimix diving, and who is known to
actually breath air while his studients are on mix, a real genius, and
then brag about it? 

       On the usdct and its gang of cry baby rejects, why would anyone
let them get in our way when we do such a good job, unless they can
discredit us using Annete's position at CDS and a bunch of soldiers of
goobery to do the dirty work, all the while denying it? 

        The issue is clear - we are making bad practices look bad, and
they want to protect those pratices, rather than learn and progress. Not
all of them by any means, only a tiny handfull, but that tiny handfull
is where all of the trouble , the lies, the bs, and the misinformation
is generated from - about 8 people in total of the whole diving
community. That is one or two at usdct, one or two cave instructors, and
one or two deep air clowns. The lies they spread temporarily bring
others out against us until the truth is exposed, as we all saw happen
with this guy Scott McCable after he had a dose of Rennaker, or the body
recovery throat sliting cop from Tampa who thought I would not fish dead
kids out of a blue hole.

         It is clear where the problems are in our sport, and it is
clear  that we need to remove these influnces, not to keep me from
having fun hitting them over the head, but to keep them from killing
people with their dangerous stupidity.

          I do not belive in covering up dangerous practices to protect
the "community". I will continue to do what its right, because all of
the worlds records for cave diving mean nothing, but all of the lives
saved mean a lot. I do not want to read another preventable horror
story, and I will continue to be the worst nightmare that the strokes
have ever had.

          To quote Rob palmer, " In sober reality there was little
point.."  To quote me, "put the peer pressure where it belongs" You are
the peers. You put the pressure on. Next time you hear misinformation
from the strokes, set them straight.
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