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>>You don't know fuck-all about me or what I do, so how can you
>>possibly write that with a sraight face?

>I know about you from what you wrote about yourself. And after
>reading that it was hard to keep a straight face.


So I guess 25 years of -uninterupted- diving in what is now
called tech-diving, and working on a NE Dive boat where
we have (according to our manifests) put -25,000- divers
on wrecks with -zero- accidents is worth nothing, eh? Hmmm.....


>And this is the techdiver list, not the retired commercial diver
>list. See if you can guess the difference.


I'll remember that when I am diving the wrecks this weekend
and contemplate it as I service my rebreather (which technique
I've been using for some 20+ years too...long before it was popular)


Now -do- go piss off.  Sheesh. What a group of pathetic losers.
Ya'll last about a half-day on the boat here before we threw you off
for a bad attitude. See, it's not -what- a man can do that is important,
it's -how- you do it. When I die, I don't want people to say "Well, he
could dive pretty well... for an asshole". I'd rather that they say "He was
a prince among men, always there to share, and always smiling.
He was a good shipmate, and a good diver".

Now: If you are not  well-balanced emotionally, you cannot be counted
on to be trustworthy in a pinch. People that rant and rave are not those
whom I would trust when the chips are down. You might be interested
in the fact that I make my living -teaching- test pilots to fly. We screen
our pilots for the  exact traits that are exhibited here in bulk, and we
-eliminate- those people from the program....... See, in my business
(which has many parallels to technical diving), we ask our buddies to
be willing to offer their lives to assist their brothers in a time of need.
I -know- what real men who are dedicated to 'taming technologies that can
bite'
are like since I work with them every day. Any of them acting like, or
writing like,
what I see here would be shunned and would never walk among the rest.


Good pilots make good divers. Bad people make neither.


Dave Sutton

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