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Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 09:03:00 -0500
From: "G. Irvine" <gmirvine@sa*.ne*>
Organization: Woodville Karst Plain Project
To: Roberto Bagnasco <divetek@we*.ch*>
CC: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: Listen, Cockroach...
Robert - glad you liked it. What the cockroaches are doing for all of
us is influencing people to do stupid things, and take unnecesary risk.
They apply peer pressure and attempt to place measures or values on
doing stupid things. They do this to validate themselves somehow.

 The result is that when a diver dies, the newspaper just say "diver
dies". They do not say the guy was doing something stupid because a
cockroach told him to, they do not say "untrained diver dies in cave",
they say "cave diving accident". They do not distinguish .

 When semebody dies diving deep air, they say "dies diving deep", if
indeed they say anything about the dive other than that the diver died.
They never quite know why.

 Here in Ft Lauderdale, it is a weekly occurrance - the body count coems
out in Monday's Sun Sentinal. I read the reports, and have to call my
cop buddies to sort it out. They are always 1) deep air, 2) leave buddy,
3) new or infrequent diver lost, 4) other cluster.
 
 I have never seen an "euipment failure" or any toher type of
explainable death, yet guess who gets sued? The equipment makers. Guess
what gets the bad name? Diving. Gues who gest retricted? All of us, and
we have assholes like Greg the Cockroach "Ice Diving Challenge" "330
throught the ice" " dove the Fits" Zambeck  to thank for it.

 The absolute fact is that this fat, bearded, halfwit slob could not run
50 yards without collapsing , so anythihng he does in diving is clearly
by the Grace of God, and at some point, when the power of his big
mouthed bad example is ripe and ready for prime time, his fat slob ass
will end up dead, and maybe then he will be doing some real good - again
by power of example. Hopefully it will be in the same dark, cold quarry
where his student died.



Roberto Bagnasco wrote:
> 
> I loved that!
> This morning I woke up in a bad mood, sad and pissed. But then I saw this
> message, I loved it! It made me fell good, I had to laugh in front on the
> screen, I don't care what it is talked about, but the insult was fantastic.
> I will use the same line, next time I want to insult some one, if George
> allows me to.
> 
> Good morning and Merry X-mas
> 
> PS: I hope we get some flames on this...
> 
> Roberto Bagnasco
> Via Regazzoni 6
> CH-6900 Lugano
> Switzerland
> 
> Tel: +41.91.9237458
> Fax: +41.91.9237576 or 9932429
> 
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