Hi Charles,
I used to criticize people like George Irvine for taking an abusive stance
towards people that preached life threatening dive practices. I used to be
heavily involved in the deep air gang after reading Deep diving by Tom Mount
and Bret Gilliam when it first came out.  The life threatening statement by
Ivan involves the preaching of deep air as being an O.K. thing.  Also stupid
but not quite as life threatening is the recommendation of 80% or even 50% as
your last deco stop gas.  If this is the case then Ivan should also mention
carrying pure O2 on board the boat or at the beach as well. I'm sure you
understand the importance of pure O2 for the deco diving environment and
possible emergency needs.

Back to George, I used to be heavy into deep air until enough people said "hey
dumb shit your going to kill yourself".  The other contributing factor was a
hallucinatory episode at 275'.  Many instructors preach that deep air diving is
okay and need to be slapped in the face that it is not.  Even the class
title"Deep Air" insinuates the acceptable practice of narcosis based diving.

Some people, such as yourself possibly, believe that the mutual debate and
agreement format is the best for arguing a point such as deep air.  To me the
argument for deep air is the same for driving drunk.  You don't have control
even though you think you might and you are a danger to other people.  If your
buddy came up to you and said that he was fine to drive after four or five
shots I would hope you would adopt a slap in the face attitude as opposed to a
gentle disagreement.

Now when I see someone take an aggressive stance towards life threatening
comments I say bravo.  Like I said before this is solely my opinion.  I am
posting this publicly because my original comment should have been directed
towards Ivan.

Dive safe and narcosis free,
Greg Kuiper



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