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Phil Pfeiffer said:
> I'm sorry. The other people on this list might be fine speakers--I don't
> know--and the rest of the events might be good, but I would *not* regard
> a talk by John Chatterton as a highlight of any symposium. Not, at least,
> if he hasn't improved as a speaker since he spoke at the New Jersey Tech
> Diver Symposium on October 8.
> John's talk at the symposium, to me, was the low point of an otherwise fine
> eight hours of talks that featured ... <snip>
I beg to differ. I was also at the same talk, as well as attending John
Chatterton's presentation at the New Jersey Dive Show in Long Branch last
weekend. Both of these presentations were funny, but the one at the NJ
Tech Symposium was hilarious. I consider him an excellent speaker, who
really gets the crowd going.
I must agree on one point. The talk at the NJ Tech Symposium was lacking
in _technical information_, such as dive planning like Phil mentioned. For
a symposium like this, you would expect the people attending to want the
technical and logistical details. For it being a _trip report_, however,
it was ok (would have been better with video or underwater slides).
At the NJ Dive Show, John cut out some of the funny stories, such as the
stories about the Brits overflowing their nappies and their funny tank
lingerie, and he showed the video that he should have showed the first time.
I thought it was good. For a presentation on _The Wreck of the Lusitania_,
it was good. For a presentation on _Dive Planning and Logistics of Diving
the Lusitania_, it would have been inadequate.
Summary: NJ Tech Symposium - a trip report, basically
NJ Dive Show - video and presentation of the _Wreck of the
Lusitania_.
Cheers,
Christina
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