Man, it's amazing what you find out when you dig a little...

Mark Jones, the intrepid team leader, is sleeping with both the women on 
the
trip (neither knowing about the other). Furthermore he has had one of 
these
women say they were driving his car when he was caught on camera speeding 
a
while ago. He paid them to take the penalty points on their license.

So far this year, the only mix gas diving group to obtain gases from the
DDRC (Diving Diseases Research Center in Plymouth, UK) without needing to
send their team back later for recompression, was a DIR only group. One of
the bent groups was run by Leigh Bishop.

Geraint Ffoulkes-Jones, recently posting to the DIRQuest forums, has been
told to shape up or ship out by the forum moderator since their approach 
is
the "anthesis of DIR diving" Amongst other things he has been lecturing
about why they dont use O2 @ 20fsw since one of the Lusitania '95 group 
had
a CNS hit (see the Aquacorps article on my web site). Since then the plans
they use have sometimes given 9 out of 10 people type I hits, incredibly
they write this off to unearnt DCS !?! 

You guys give a "stiff upper lip" a whole new definition...

   Jim

Sender: Buxton, Greg  Date: 9/17/99 5:24 AM

>Just read some of your comments about the Luistania dive team.
>Frankly they are offensive. 
>We are all curious to know how many sub 80m wrecks you and your DIR chums
>find, dive, and recover bells, helms, steam whistles, portholes, telegraphs
>etc from......
>Oh No! pillage and piracy.... Desecration of the sea.....
>Why not pop over for a weeks deep wrecking in the UK. Perhaps your view
>would be that the diving we do is too dangerous? 
>
>Your assumption that your method of diving is "Right" is the source of no
>end of humour here. We don't argue that it is OK and probably one of the
>better rigs for cave diving. Friends in the CDG would be only too happy to
>take you on a few trips if you came over.
>UK wreckers have been plundering the depths for Spidge for decades before
>DIR were out of nappies, and will continue to do so long after you, I and
>DIR have hung up our fins.
>
>Equipment rigging is important but will never save your life. That is done
>by you and your mental state. Bad rigging can undoubtedly contribute to the
>reduction in good reaction to stress. We do hundreds of dives each year with
>identical riggs with NO incidents. I can't tell you to like what we do, but
>you should respect the achievements as we do of any diver, DIR or not.
>
>Your insulting comments are not really worth the effort of comment but you
>do yourself and DIR no service in displaying this childish behaviour. Grow
>up and get on and dive. I don't give a toss if you do it right, wrong or not
>at all. The idea is to have fun. It isn't a competition, which is just as
>well.
>
>Perhaps we shall meet at DEMA?
>
>Safe diving
>
>Regards
>Greg Buxton - Starfish Diver
>Tel	+44 (0) 121 555 4518
>Fax	+44 (0) 121 555 4626
>Home	+44 (0) 121 449 5371
>Mobile	07803 723545
>
>


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