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> Steve.
>Fact. All the better boats in South florida, are picky abour WHO they take
>on deeper dives. This means the captains WILL decide who they think is
>likely to be safe, and who they think will be too risky to take. It does
>NOT matter whether you like this or not, this is the way it is happening
>right now.
Dan, this isn't a problem. It's an opportunity.
Furthermore, if the demand is there, these "captains" will soon be on the
beach.
>And we have some of the best deep dives in the world. Period.
Yes. But only some of them. Period.
>Some of the boats are more picky than others, in that to deep dive, they
>have to actually know you, and really know what you are likely to do. And
>many of these best boats, have begun taking out less and less deep trips,
>leaving only a very few really good boats left. This is because of diver
>deaths. This is because of the lack of reasonable tech standards. This is
>because of poor tech divers. This is ruining our ability to be able to find
>a boat that will take us to the site we want to dive.
Yup. A BIG opportunity.
>If someone is too damn fat and lazy to train to become fit, I'll suggest to
>all boat captains, that these guys should be left at the dock. They are too
>big a risk for the rest of us, who were willing to put the time in to become
>tech divers. I'll say this again. No one "has" to be fat and lazy. If you
>are, you have the "Right" to go bowling. You have the "right" to eat till
>you are full, make your self vomit, and then stuff your fat gut again. You
>have the "right " to hang Gilliam's poster over your couch, and toast him
>over half a dozen 6 packs with your fat friends. You don't have the "right"
>to ruin our chances to dive where we want to dive.
Nothing Gilliam does will ever ruin any of your rights.
These aren't rights, we've been through this before. I thought you got
it, but maybe not.
Tell you what, if you really can't find a boat down there that does what
you want done, let me know, and I personally will see to it that you are
provided with the kind of service that you want, provided in the way you
want it provided.
>Even if you are an obese slob, someone out there is family to you, and its
>wrong for you to inflict emotional injury on them, with your untimely
>demise. Some may even be counting on you for their future, and your
>irresponsible entrance into a sport you are unfit for, that will place you
>at exponentially more risk than it will a highly fit diver, is just plain
>wrong. Do you have "the right" to destroy your family???Do you have the
>"right" to make your wife a widow and your kids fatherless??? Stop being so
>damn self absorbed, and start a fitness program today, one that will give
>you a shot at safe tech divng in the future, as well as a shot at making 60
>without needing a triple by-pass operation.
I would venture that very few bypass operations are elective, as you seem
to imply.
You're throwing that word "right" around again, and demonstrating that
you don't understand what it means, before someone points out that you
don't have the right to judge anybody.
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"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you
want to live forever?"
-First Sergeant Dan Daly, 1918
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