I hear ya, Anthony.

And I agree it takes a certain kind of Man to put up with the pitching 
boat, undrinkable water, creatures higher on the food chain. Yes, it 
takes a certain rugged spirit, an indomitable will to handle the tough 
conditions, backed up plumbing and lousy food associated with diving the 
Big Blue.

Yes, it takes purpose and drive to keep your equipment top notch and a 
cast iron stomach to do the dives we Ocean divers do. It takes courage, 
balls and fortitude with a good serving of Manly sprit. Yes, Anthony it's 
easier to do fresh water dives, but it's *exactly that* which turns Men 
like us away. Away from the little sissy fish, the complete lack of 
poisonous creatures and boring flat water. We are the kind of Men who 
relish a challenge and yawn at status quo.

We are Ocean Divers!

  Jim


On 2/6/98 3:17 PM Anthony DeBoer wrote:

>Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*> writes:
>> Anthony-
>> 
>> The lake I dove in was a green hell. All I could see was green and brown 
>> slime as I slowly sank into the bottomless ooze. And that was standing on 
>> the bank. My gear smelled like a sewer for weeks.
>
>Eeeuw.  Yes, there are places like that, but one does tend to avoid them.
>You need either something spring-fed, ideally through millions of tons of
>karst, or something far enough north that it gets the crap frozen out of
>it annually.
>
>> No thanks, the Ocean for me.
>
>I've been out on the Great Lakes in raunchy weather many a time, and I've
>always been as solid as a rock, but take me out on the ocean even on the
>calmest of days and it's pretty much guaranteed I'll be sending my
>breakfast in first to check the water for me.  After that I'm always good
>to go, but I hate summoning Ulrick like that.
>
>And rinsing gear off after a dive?  Real diving water rinses your gear
>_during_ the dive.
>
>No thanks, freshwater for me.  :-)
>
>-- 
>Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*>
>


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