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> >So there we're told... > >>> Harvey should be allowed to rest in peace, regardless of the cause of >death. << > >Of course, solely for selfless reasons of diver education, everyone else in >the nation had to be told in the same message that ... > >>> he ran a very careless operation << >>> he was broke << >>> was closed once by the sheriff for failure to pay back taxes << >>> and Con Ed had turned off his electric. << > >I'm sure, Harvey will certainly "rest in peace" with this kind of obituary! > >>> Harvey should be allowed to rest in peace, regardless of the cause of >death. << Andy, The characterizations Bob used for Harvey, are very similar to the same ones which could be used for a dozen of the other remaining old-time legends in diving. In the dive industry, many of the oldtimers who are the biggest characters, who are much larger than life, who we really enjoy having in our "universe" of diving, are in exactly the same financial and non-technical "comfort zone" as I assume Harvey was from Bob's post. . If they were instead, some money hungry accountant type, they might be well off financially, but have no large number of us mourning their passing. I'd be alot more impressed with Harvey being what I got from Bob's post, than I would from some one else's post where they talked about how well he left his estate, taxes and the usual obituary. So Harvey was a major character, far from boring, and probably fun to listen to and be around. He would probably be much prouder of "sticking it" to Con Ed, than of how closely he resembled the DIR diver ---and this is cool, because we need colorful, Ernest Hemingway type characters to make life more enjoyable to all of us. I'm sure I would have enjoyed watching his antics, had I had the opportunity to have known him. I wish I had been able to. Regards, Dan Volker -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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