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Pete, have fun. pH wrote: > > .....And don't tell ME war stories bout the ER - "We ARE the G*damn shore > patrol!". At LAC from '61-'75 the military saw 132,000 battle trauma > casualties. In the same period we treated almost 200,000 trauma casualties > and our war didn't end in 1975. Military MDs come to TRAIN at LAC. (True) > > At 08:38 PM 8/2/98 -0400, George Irvine III wrote: > >My wife just had a real fun day in the E.R.- you do know what that is, > >right. A kid got killed on his motorcycle - massive head injury , died > >in the trauma center. > > Sorry for those left behind, indeed. Was he wearing a helmet? Riding a > motorcycle without a helmet is Nature's way of passing on your heart, > kidneys, corneas and liver to people who will take care of them. I hope you > carry your donor card at all times, although there's little call for mouth > transplants. > > So you want scary and caves?? Then come along with our dive team to Vanuatu > in December. In addition to diving the Coolidge, we are going in to the > completely unexplored cave system which has connectors to the sea. Why > unexplored? Ask the local, who was dragged in and left for dead on a ledge > - by a huge saltwater crocodile. For three days he lay in complete > darkness, surrounded by body parts, listening to the crocs crunch dinner > around him. Finally he free dived and swam out, carried by the current and > was saved by a fisherman. They lose 5-10 people like this a year. We are > going in to this brackish water, poor viz due to the tropical rain runoff, > to film the Ledge of Death and do body parts recovery. It may not be three > thousand yards at 300', but then even your scooter can't outrun 19 feet and > 2000lbs of angry reptile whose lunch you are stealing! Size MATTERS Geo. > > pH -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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