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From: "Grant Jones" <grant@ow*.fr*.co*.uk*>
To: "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>, "Kevin Connell" <kevin@nw*.co*>
Subject: Re: Sick of Rants
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:32:03 +0100

kevin wrote:

>Grant, we've all heard this before.  Yeah, so the delivery isn't so
>great.  If you knew what was going on, and how many times its been
>repeated, then you would be rude too.

    If one of my students kept asking the same questions, then I would have
a long hard look at the way I was teaching them, same here, new divers don't
know about dir, so lots of questions and accidents.

>Bullshit gear configuration and improper gas mixes kill.  Simple as that.

    New divers don't know about these things.

    Grant






>
>
>At 08:50 PM 8/17/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>>billy wrote:,
>>
>> >How can standing on the sidelines furiously waving your
>> >handkerchief at every perceived breach of your outmoded
>> >standard of ettiquette possibly help anyone "see clearly
>> >the DIR message"?
>>
>>     "Ha Ha, your mate died, stroke" - is that your idea of etiquette ?
>>
>> >I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you intend
>> >otherwise, but you are guilty of trying to distract people
>> >from the real points which are...
>> >
>> >a) when a stroke dies from strokery, there is usually a
>> >conspiracy amongst the strokes who trained or supplied or
>> >encouraged the dead stroke, in order to hide the true cause
>> >of death. We are witnessing such an event right now with the
>> >latest Andrea Doria death.
>>
>>     So why not use this list and the vast information that some of the
>>people using it have, and get in there first ?.
>>     I know lots of *new* divers come and look at this list to read what
the
>>*top techie guys* have to say, all they see are mud flinging and slagging
>>match's, not many of them are here long enough to learn anything - IMO
thats
>>a waste.
>>
>> >b) the DIR equipment configuration and protocols have been
>> >designed by the most accomplished divers in the world, for
>> >the use of all divers, to eliminate death by strokery.
>>
>>     I agree, but what good is that if you don't spread the word?, instead
of
>>trying to score points with other *agencies*, or groups
>>
>> >If you support either of these positions (and you words
>> >above suggest you do) then you would do everyone on this
>> >list a favour by shutting up.
>>
>>     I'm glad that you actually read and digest what I'm trying to say -
>>others post, then think - but I hate to think that because of egos and
>>infantile behaviour, some one might die, due to lack of knowledge.
>>
>>
>>     Grant
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >rgds     billyw
>> >
>> >
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>
>-----------------------------------------------
>Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*>
>
>NW Labor Systems, Inc
>http://www.nwls.com
>
>Who is John Galt?
>-----------------------------------------------
>

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