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bdi wrote: > > At 09:16 AM 23/08/1998 -0400, Wrolf Courtney wrote: > >bdi wrote: > >> > >> At 04:13 AM 23/08/1998 -0400, Wrolf Courtney wrote: > >> >bdi wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Wrolf, exactly what kind of engineer are you? > >> >> > >> >> rgrds billyw > >> > > >> >OK. This one's for free. > >> > > >> >A practical one. > >> >Wrolf > >> > >> Does this mean you don't have an engineering > >> degree or some professional qualification? > >> > >> rgrds billyw > > > >Great. This is a new question, not a restatement of someone > >else's. And you did not cross post it to cavers etc. > > > >I will answer your question. I usually answer with a wealth of detail, > >is this OK, or do you want a simple yes/no answer. > > A yes or a no will do, thank you. > > rgrds billyw Why certainly. Would you like this to be an advance on your study of DiR vs. Hogarthian vs general cave diving vs. general tech gear rigging techniques? So then I give you a single yes/no answer to the question, "Do I have an engineering degree or some professional qualification?". Then you do the comparative gear rigging techniques stuff. Copyleft it if you want, or leave it with no copyright notice, to enter it into the public domain. > Then I answer the questions in the following post of yours: > Tell me, have you done any trimix dives? Have you done > any deep dives with multiple decompression gasses? > Do you know what it's like to haul the mass of four or > more cylinders and lights up from beyond 200ft?. Do you > know how quickly you can burn your gas swimming to > achieve or maintain a steady ascent from those depths > or trying to hold a deco stop in the absence of > neutral bouyancy and effective bouyancy control? > > I have asked you before to let me know what kind of > experience you've had with trimix and multiple deco > cylinders, but have not received your answer yet. > Please oblige me with one. > > The reason I ask is because you are doing a lot of > surmising and hypothesising on these lists. It is > important for observers to understand where you are > coming from. > > Are you re-visiting this tragedy and re-opening these > wounds with a view to posing some real solutions based > on a profound understanding of the dive and its problems, > drawing from your own knowledge and experience, or are > we witnessing (as I suspect) a crule, self-indulgent > guessing game by an amateur (and I use the term in its > broader sense) who is careless of the pain he is causing > others? > > Wrolf. It's time to tell us what your experience base > is. > > rgrds billyw OK? As soon as you say OK, then you get your first one. -- Wrolf Wrolf's Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1927 -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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