Oh, come on, trout, what about your stroke days?

Maaan, you be like bragging "I ain't never had no crabs" while you be in 
a ho-house. Be real, man...

 Jim

Sender: Jess Armantrout  Date: 1/1/99 4:47 PM

>I gues we just don't have as many cf's to brag about.  Oh darn.
>
>Trout
>-----Original Message-----
>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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