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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:24:15 -0400, you wrote:
>Denis J. Burlage wrote:
>
>> So my 12 year old daughter calls me at work today and asks....promise =
me
>>you won't ever dive it again...please!"
>
>Denis -- you need to make very clear to everyone who cares about you the
>fact that *anyone* could die on *any dive*. The risk of drowning, or =
some
>other fatal injury, begins with placing your nose and mouth below the
>water's surface.
OOPS! sorry chris, this is a 12-year old here..she doesn't need that
kind of burden.
>For us to be less informative and honest about diving is to =
intentionally
>and negligently mislead those we know, leaving them with the mistaken
>impression that diving is a risk-free activity.
Yep...Sometimes dishonesty is the greatest service we can do for those
we love.. are you gonna quit because it ISNT risk-free?or are you
gonna make them feel relaxed and confident that you're coming home
tonight?if you thought you WEREN'T coming home, you wouldn't go,
right?
It isn't -- and can't be
>made so. The same applies to the whole of life itself. By example, =
however,
>you can demonstrate your own concern for and attention to safety, and
>thereby establish or restore confidence in you.
>You should also explain that with greater complexity, dives become more
>difficult and provide greater opportunity to die
I don't think so..IMHO what you should explain is that when daddy
thinks there's a very real PROBABILITY he's gonna hurt himself, he
comes home instead..dwelling on POSSIBILITIES will get you a kid
that's afraid to step outside the house..But i have to be honest here
on the list.. I have no kids, so maybe I'm being naive..
.. After that's been said,
>we all have to write our own lyrics to the song about why we do what we
>do.;-)
We surely do..Here's a passage from "Invictus" for those of a poetical
bent..
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
=46rom --- Invictus=20
>Best regards,
>
you too
>
>
>Christopher A. Brown
>The Technical Diving Video Library http://www.aulinc.com/video.htm
>ameruwlite@ao*.co*, Fax: 352.669.1256, or Phone: 352.669.5483
>
>Life is short -- this is not a rehearsal.
>
John Dunk o
Lake City,Fl o
screwloo@is*.ne* ____o_____
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