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From: "Grant Jones" <grant@ow*.fr*.co*.uk*>
To: "techdiver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>, "Jim Cobb" <cobber@ci*.co*>
Subject: Re: Sick of Rants
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:27:03 +0100

cobb wrote:

>No, have not dove over there in Jolly Old England or elsewhere in Europe.

    Scapa flow is in Scotland, not England, and over here we *dive* or go
diving, we don't dove or go doving.


>I could not imagine being in a RIB for the full day or two days it takes
>to get to the wrecks around here.

    Nor do we, go and re read my post again.....

>You say air and nitrox? You don't use 100% for deco? So you say you do
>DIR,

    Never said that I do dir.......you must learn to read these posts before
you attempt to answer them, and no, I use 50% for deco.

    Grant




 is this with long hose and iso manifold or independent doubles? When
>you see someone with independent doubles do you say "I say, old boy, that
>inde twinset is a bit retro, don't ya think?" or do you tell him he is a
>stroke and give him a bit of the old in-out/in-out until he agrees it's a
>stupid idea?
>
>IOW, are you a talker or a doer?
>
> Jim
>
>Sender: Grant Jones  Date: 8/17/99 3:50 PM
>
>>
>>cobb wrote:
>>
>>>My, you are a pompous ahole, aren't you?
>>
>>    *yawn* - hows the knuckles jim?
>>
>>Have you done the Scapa Flow
>>>wrecks? Which ones?
>>
>>    All of them, and most of the block ships,  and yourself?
>>
>>
>>Are you an air diver or a trimix diver?
>>
>>    Air and Nitrox
>>
>>Do you do
>>>that RIB stuff or go out on real boats?
>>
>>    Guess you havent been over here then, the majority of British divers
use
>>RIBS, as most of us have easy access to them, personally I prefer RIBS, as
>>we
>>can get to a site a lot quicker, but for some of the further out stuff I
go
>>by *real* boat as you call them, same goes for when diving abroad - Truk
>>Lagoon, Belize etc..
>>
>>>I know that if I ask you enough questions we might get just a *leeeeetle*
>>>bit of useful information out of you, assuming that's possible.
>>
>>    You only have to ask ..........
>>
>>    Grant
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>Sender: Grant Jones  Date: 8/16/99 3:31 PM
>>>
>>>>    I belive my posts do serve a use-ful purpose, and if only one life
is
>>>>saved by a diver seeing clearly the DIR message, instead of the guano,
>>then
>>>>I will feel justified
>>>>
>>>>    Grant
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html
>
>
>

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