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<html> Hi Bill<br> As we both agree on the main purpose of the story is a lesson can be learned,which is why I told it,exactly as it happen every word is true,I did not change any part for any reason to save myself from any abuse.I did not even change it by 20% or less nor did I add anything to make it look good.The facts are so precise that I even spent 1hr talking to John Moyer about the small part that he and Gary Gentile had in the story,the story has been written for over a month and everyone who new me,new of it,I hide nothing.<br> It is kind of funny that you refer to DIR to me as you don't know exactly how I dive or wear my gear,I do understand that it is away of thinking and one big point I was getting at in the story I think you may have missed.If you would go to my story and change all the words that are "China" to "The End of the line" you and the WKPP would get it real quick.But you are correct in the way you go after the end of your line,Had I had a buddy he may have made me add a line,as my lust for the china was so great I made a mistake.<br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite>This is a good story with a lot of lessons. I guess this means you have eight lives left and you ll be a bit more careful next time around. Maybe you can even make a deathbed conversion to DIR, but I won t hold my breath. For this once, I ll spare you all of the usual abuse, which you richly deserve and instead focus on the real object lesson here.</blockquote><br> Thanks for sparing me ,but God had already done that.<br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite>Sinks which ranges from 200 to 300 feet. Personally, I would say that diving inside the deep wreck is far more dangerous because of the small passage, instability, silt and a very risky, variable and indeterminate decompression environment. </blockquote><br> Thanks again it is the first time that I have seen any of you guys give wreck diving the respect it should get. <br> <br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite>You aptly captured the raw fear and terror experienced when for a moment you were lost. When you are deep there is very little time to figure things out and responses must be automatic, rational and rote from memory. The DIR system was developed specifically to deal with the problems of deep cave diving. Thus, you can understand the standardization of gear placement, the simplicity and uniformity of gear and the heavy reliance on the buddy system as critical life support. It constantly baffles me that people fight us so over these seemingly obvious issues when the similarities in diving deep wrecks and caves are so clear. </blockquote><br> Again you are correct,but most do not fight you over what you say,they fight you over the way you say it.<br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite> The WKPP, while certainly not eliminating risk, has made the experience of diving in these locations far safer and entertaining. Diving inside these spectacular offshore wrecks should be the same way and not a life or death experience every time.</blockquote><br> The risk of diving deep in a cave or wreck is always there and should be done as safely as you can.Only those who have been on a trip where there has been a death can and will tell you that there is no fun in being there and wish they were not.Thanks again for calling our wrecks spectacular.<br> <br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite>You need to consider how similar our activities are and be more willing to accept the information we have to impart </blockquote><br> What makes you think I have not<br> <br> <br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite>Think about it. In those few moments of fear, which may have been your last on earth, if George Irvine had appeared out of the darkness and offered you his reel or long hose or whatever, would you have been offended even though he was yelling at you through his regulator and you could make out the word "stroke"? </blockquote><br> If one is in real need of being saved as at least two did from being lost inside ,they would not care what he said,as for me if it was his long hose he was offering I may have purged it a little.<br> Thanks for the advice and your post was far better than I expected ,safe diving to you.<br> <br> Capt.JT <BR> </html> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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