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> 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..... Oh, so you're a boat monkey, this explains a lot. >> 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) Oh and a old-fart boat monkey, so fixed in your ways you probably still use a pony between your independent doubles. > 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". In your case it will be "I always knew he was going to kill himself one day." > 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' Ever notice how most boat monkeys claim to be astronauts, brain surgeons, nuclear physicists and now test pilot trainers. I find it hard to believe this as I watch them swabbing up the puke, digging the toilet paper out of the head and standing in the bilge's up to their ankles in oily water shorting the engine solenoids with a screwdriver. Jim -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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