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From: <Sdowdy@ex*.ne*>
To: kirvine@sa*.ne*
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:58:54 -0400
Subject: Re: Even a broken clock is right twice a day
CC: techdiver@aquanaut.com, vbtech@ci*.co*
Gee George, 

You speak an awful lot about "my" methods.  Seems that I dive 
very similar equip/config as yourself and your team.  It is great 
when you walk so well into the game.

You emphasize my point to the T. I never commented on Bill's 
experience, nor yours.  You guys have done dives that I have yet to 
do.  But the fact still remains that you run your mouth with little 
knowledge about what goes on up here.  Unfortunately you will 
probably never dive up here again.  That is your loss indeed, but 
when JT or one of the boys up here makes a statement, you have 
no business commenting on it unless you were here. "Hear say" 
plays little in this game and you will rarely see JT, Jim C. or any of 
the guys try to factualize anything unless they were a part of it.  A 
lesson a few of you loose lipped butt boys could learn.

As far as being a stroke, you busted your own lip on that one, you 
know nothing of me, my methods, or my gear.  But it is DIR and I 
am rather cozy with it.  I've been down there, done the full cave 
deal, and have fun as much as I can.  If you try to stereotype me 
into a ceiling of the cave wreck diver, you are the one who loses 
that guessing game.

We look for first hand experience from you on what happens in 
your part of the world, and look elsewhere when it happens up here 
or anywhere else.  If you would stop your guessing and let 
someone worthy handle it, all the information would be first-hand

<We've seen you jerks in action.>  I don't recall ever seeing you on 
any boat I was on.

<You will never have any luck getting us to be quiet about the 
horror up there.>  This is the real tragedy. Remember George, you 
don't know what it's like up here.  Keep it first-hand.

<The fact is that our methods make sense, yours can not be 
logically explained by anyone, including you.>  They are the same 
methods, so that statement is not rational.

<The fact is that can not do what we do, but we can do what you 
do.>  Wrong,  if you could do what we do, you would know to keep 
your mouth shut half the time.

My issues are not about you, your methods, or experience, you 
know you have all of those, but your lack of control is full of 
slander, misinformation and plain stupidity.

Oh, and to call me dumber than a clam, it only makes me smile, 
because once again, you don't even have a clue.


Steve, before the ocean gets to you it passes us here in Florida. Bill
has been diving these wrecks for 20 years. When he was teaching
engineering at Brown Univerity up in Rhode Island, he was catching
dinner the diving off of the bluffs up there. He does things you can not
even fathom in our project, and it is a real laugh when a stroke like
you commes and challenges any of us to anything. We've seen you jerks in
action.

When divers from here dive up there, they may use larger clips and wear
gloves. When divers from up there try to do what we do here, they look
like the strokes that they trully are. One of your big time wreck divers
showed up down here trying to dive his pony in the cave at Ginnie, and
spent his time crawling across the floor like an idiot. His name was 
Shiksa or somethign like that. I saw a flock or NJ wreck divers trying
to enter the cave agt Ginnie one night several years ago while diving
with Bill. We watched form the ceiling as these strokes stuggeled and
bobbled and thrashed , going nowhere. 

The fact is that our methods make sense, yours can not be logically
explained by anyone, including you. The fact is that can not do what we
do, but we can do what you do.

I will defer to our Swedish, Norwegian, British, Alaskan and other
counterparts to point out to you that being a stroke is being a stroke -
there are no excuses. There is no lattitude at which being a moron is
acceptable .

You will never have any luck getting us to be quiet about the horror up
there. We ar not in the busines of making you happy, covering for your
stupidity, or holding hands with you or anyone else on the constant
prade of accidents and mistakes that are a direct result of the fact
that you and your pals are dumber than the clams on the bottom of the
sea up there.

Sdowdy@ex*.ne* wrote:
> 
> Bill,
> You guys do great dives.....YeeHaaaaaa....congrats!
> 
> But it gets old listening to a bunch of armchair divers.  You guys
> come up here, do our dives with us, and we'll even let you preach
> your gospel to the strokes, (if you can actually find any) till you are
> blue in the face.  But until you come up, see how it goes, and meet
> us, .......Shut the hell up.
> 
> Unfortunately it's the quiet "Karst Boys" that truly shine.
> 
> I've been there, seen your operation, ........your turn!
> 
> Cheers
> Stephen A.Dowdy
> 
> 746 Granby Street
> Norfolk, Virginia 23510-2012
> 
> 757-627-8311  ext 25
> Fax 757-627-0608
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