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I gues we just don't have as many cf's to brag about.  Oh darn.

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From: Rubrifolia@ao*.co* <Rubrifolia@ao*.co*>
To: cobber@ci*.co* <cobber@ci*.co*>; captjt@mi*.co*
<captjt@mi*.co*>; techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Cc: vbtech@ci*.co* <vbtech@ci*.co*>
Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Setting my EGO aside


>In a message dated 1/1/99 11:30:49 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>cobber@ci*.co* writes:
>
><< it is truly rare when a diver spends the time to describe a
clusterfuck
> situation, esp. if there were no witnesses.
>  >>
>
>
>And here is the true advantage to being a pizza stained north east wreck
>diver....the boats on which I travel and have traveled all treat their
diving
>as an evolving process. None are so hugely caught up in their egos and
their
>places in the dive world that they cannot admit to mistakes.....Rather the
>trips to and from the site are often taken up with the 'oh-shits' and how
now
>in the perfect light of surface visibility the event or events could have
been
>improved upon.....these stories arent machismo, big man doing super cool
Bruce
>Willis imitation, but rather, oh man, I fucked up.....
>
>In fact, early on I realized that hanging out around these discussions was
the
>best learning tool I could access, next to continually going diving.....and
>that I could also enter into this pool and each and every one of my
'episodes'
>could also be dissected up on deck.....not with rancor or "you dunderhead"
>(altho in my case that tends to apply, what could I have beeen thinking
of???
><g>)....but with a healthy awareness that this too could happen to you or
that
>your time will come for some sort of meeting with Murphy and his downhill
>train.  Even if it will not be your particular circumstance, often the sets
of
>skills used as coping mechanisms can be applied. Those stories get stored
>somewhere in the brainpan and they can instantly replay when needed.
>
>Poor old Wrolf's episode this spring is a good example.  I've never had a
run
>away inflator incident and only fairly briefly thought about it.  Out came
>many stories of run amuck suits and inflators and the different sets of
>circumstances which caused the blow-ups and then the differing responses
and
>outcomes....all useful stuff....
>
>Suicide clips for example.  We used to all use them.  Years ago now, a
diver
>was deep inside the Doria when one of the clips wrapped round a cable....
in
>that total darkness the diver had to take off his rig, cut himself clear
and
>re-don...and this was before mix....that story went round immediately and
we
>all fairly quickly remedied our set-ups....Every time a diver would show up
on
>that boat with those clips, that story would be trotted out.
>
>This fall a diver had a series of judgement errors almost catch up to her
and
>in the round robin discussion group one diver said that he would absolutely
>never do this or that on this or that particular setup....but then was
backed
>up in the reminder that everyone used to do those things off of those set
>ups....it was just over the evolutionary process of going diving, seeing
and
>making mistakes that the diver came to those Mount Olympian judgements...
>
>And I can hear the KP'ers now, yes, I do represent the single most
insidious
>force in diving today, personal choice....the personal choice to go diving
as
>well and as often as I can amidst a group of like minded individuals.....
>
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