Dan Volker wrote:
> 
> In the science fiction movie classic, "DUNE", the Fremen said of Paul
> Mahdib, " He can kill with a word or a thought".

Cool.

I am digging out my old dog eared copies of the Dune series now.  I will
need
some good reading.  I'm off work now, surgery on Monday, then another
week off
work.  And I can only take ibuprofen and the like - codeine sends me
straight
to the ER.

On the good side, I got some sleep last night.  I guess my brain must
have decided
that it was not going to do any good, letting the "discomfort" keep me
up any longer.

After one and a half to two months, the surgeon says I can start an
appropriate excercise program.  Anyone got any ideas for a post hernia
excercise program, that
will get me back to wandering the decks of the Wahoo and the John Jack,
carrying 150lbs of gear without a clue, asap?
 
> ... Wrolf Courtney ... argue[s] repeatedly with the most basic and well proven
> DIR concepts ...

I do not recall arguing repeatedly with DIR concepts, though I have
probably had my
tiffs.  Could you remind me?  I think that you have inadvertently turned
me into
a posterboy for everyone who has a question, argument, or complaint
about the DIR
system.

As far as Hogarthian rigging concepts, and the rest of the DIR system,
they seem to
me to be the best we have.  I look forward to the publication of how
they have 
been extended for SC rebreathers (clearly, "breath the long hose" is not
the whole
story any more.)

I also think that it is the best basis for extending in other areas. 
And there are
plenty.  Of course, New York/New Jersey wreck diving is the obvious
example.  But
what about the 60' Florida vacation recreational diver, buddied up on
the boat with Joe Blow from Chicago, who has never been diving in the
sea, but has a five year
old C-card....

(That was one of a couple of dives that completely convinced me that I
needed to be
self sufficient.)

> Yes we all have a right to free speech. But when those of us who are without
> knowledge ( i.e., Wrolf, Hanzel, et al ) , argue publicly against those who
> do---on issues in which life or death will most certainly result, the
> "Right" to public  free speech can allow an errant individual to commit what
> is in reality, a CRIME against the technical diving community. Rapid
> adoption of DIR would save lives. For the novice with intellectual pretense,
> to attack basic DIR implementation, using only his sense of "apriori
> knowledge", behavior like this must be seen as contributory to future
> deaths, and constant sanctions on them, by the "skilled" divers in the
> group, MUST answer this irresponsible behavior.

Novice?  No, you can't mean that.  Novice techdiver?  No, I was a
founding member of the list.  Novice technical diver?  Yeah, I have only
had a few dozen staged deco, penetration, or (planned) braille zero-vis
dives.  Maybe fifty.  Definitely a novice.  When I get to a hundred, I
claim the right to be considered junior intermediate, second class.

I do think a few things that may suprise you:

Rapid adoption of DIR would be a good thing.

Adaptation of DIR to the various diving environments would also be a
good thing.

Adoption by DIR proponents of effective techniques of persuasion would
be the single best way to promote rapid adoption of DIR.

A necessary prerequisite for this is to dismantle the cult worship of
GIII.  I am hoping that he can do this himself.  The simple fact is that
most of us are no fools.  And after the first few times that we get
conned and ripped,
we learn to distrust people and things that we have to take solely on
trust.

Like the guy who tells us we have to put our faith in a higher power,
and our wallet in his hand.  The barker at the fair, who manages to keep
pumping up the size (and cost) of the teddy bear that we are going to
win for our kid.  The guy who is super high champeen of cave diving some
place down south, and who is going to tell us what to do, and BROOKS NO
ARGUMENT!

-- 
Wrolf

Wrolf's Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf
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