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Seeing how in America you can say what you think, I do so on a regular basis. And while my civil rights might protect me from lawsuits, it won't necessarily protect you from retribution. Like the harassment I got (and am still getting) over the trimix page. My comments about DeepTek ragazine and it's owner, Brett Gilliam has gotten me struck from the roles of that magazine and also, I just found out, Scuba Times, which is another Garth/Gilliam rag. Now the fact is that I had paid up subscriptions with both magazines, so I am owned either money or issues. But I can see this from their viewpoint, that is pull the asshole's subscription and fuck him. There's not much I can do about it, and it's not worth the trouble trying to get one or the other out of them. Touche. But what I can do is review the latest Scuba Times and perhaps those who are thinking of subscribing or purchasing the magazine won't bother to do so. The premise of the December '97 issue is on Michael Crichton's politcally correct novel, Sphere. First off, this move must be in big trouble if the only magazine they could get to do a fluff piece is Scuba Times. This fact alone is enough for me to miss the joy of seeing Queen Latifa go to mat with a giant jellyfish. The amazingly stupid part of this rag is the "sci-fi" photo thriller which highlights pictures of diving equipment with a bunch of idiots running around an aquarium with AGA masks on and no air supply. Those models must have been suffering! Along the bottom of the full page spreads is gratuitous pictures of dubious equipment, sometimes just a picture of the logo only! Gosh, now that I've seen the logo in Scuba Times groovy sci-fi set, I'd better go out and buy it! So here are these bozos with their FFM's and toy pistols (For Shame, fred garth, evil firearms, the bane of mankind, in your rag????) running around poising (hey, garth, did you get to "do" any of the models?), I was bored to tears. Let's see, skipping over 40 pages of ads we get to the much degraded ADJ, or advanced diving journal. Let me just put these in a nutshell for you: Jim vs. The Volcano- A clusterfuck by unprepared divers. The Ghost of Parker Turner- Yet another attempt to make money off of a dead guy. Meeting Mr. Big- Brett Gilliams 429th story on his whale encounter (give it rest, brett) A quote from the story "While I was taking inventory of body parts and mentally calculating if I qualified for hypoxia-induced brain damage...." Yes, Brett, you do. Lessons of a Stringer- A spearfisherman somehow survives incredible stupidity. Three-minute Nightmare- Jim Bowden's survives getting flushed in a classic clusterfuck. Selling myself down the river- A Hoser survives stupidity AND a cluserfuck all in one. Exploring the Twilight Zone- Richard Pyle "buyaciclunarbuyacislunarbuyacislunarbuyacislunar" There you go folks, I just saved you $3.50. Go buy a beer. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix At http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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