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Chris, you are actualy wrong about this for the following paradoxical reason: the doing it right diver spends less money on the basic necessities, and gets better stuff, so has the money to buy the toys, like scooters, and his diving is improved by strting out right so that he needs more stages, regs, backup gear, etc. The stroke gets so badly hosed up front by dive shops who pormoite stroke gear and load them up on useless crap for giant money and then thay can't dive anyway, have to spend money again to replace this stuff, and then have no money for anything else that they would have bought had they not been screwed in the first place. Chris Calvert wrote: > > > Going out and buying the right gear will help you go a lot farther > > but it won't get you all of the way. The one thing I haven't seen any > > Very true. But I think that almost all dive shops (I wouldn't > like to comment whether this is good or bad) would go out of business > if they only sold hogarthian. > > > of you guys discuss is the fact that the newer divers are lacking > > thought processes. They all seem to just want to "go to the end of > > the line as fast as possible" and prove themself. They're not > > enjoying the cave diving for the cave, but rather the pervasive macho > > ego attitude. > > Same with trampers. There seems to be a challenge to turn a 3 day > tramp into a 1 day marathon. This affects about 50% of trampers based > on what I have seen and heard. > > > This whole "must prove my ability" attitude has gotten > > into the entire "technical diving" community and is what causes > > accidents like you just saw in West Palm. It's scary when 95% of all > > new cave divers don't even live near underwater caves. It used to be > > the otherway around. > > I should point out that 95% of mountainers don't live near mountains > either. One problem with living in the States is that equipment is so > easy and cheap to buy so it is much easier to overestimate your own > ability. Come to New Zealand and wait 3 months for everything. > > Regards > > Chris Calvert, Engineering Manager > Business Computers Ltd, Christchurch > New Zealand. Ph +64 3 359 5556 Fax +64 3 359 5975 > Web site www.bcl.co.nz -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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