----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Pickering" <Kevin.Pickering@br*.co*.uk*>
To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: 59 reasons you strokes should shut up and listen

<snip>

> More rubbish.

Thanks for the preface.

> Let's make something clear. You can't fault a lot of what George says, DIR
> is the way to dive. The problem is why should people log onto Tech Diver
and
> listen to opinionated, egocentric pondlife trying to come up with the best
> put - down. This is the reason there is a backlash against DIR. It makes
it
> very difficult to promote DIR when it is associated with the Tech Diver
> list.

I dont know what you've been smoking, but the backlash against DIR comes
from
ego. DIR challenges the entire recreational SCUBA industry, certification
agency's, marketing monolith's.

People like to think they have the way, the gear, have done more dives, am
older, younger, hung, buffed, whatever. 99% of the "backlash" is from people
who's ego or image of self perfection is challenged. The hardest people to
get to listen to DIR philosophy is a PADI MSDT. He already knows everything,
and "a lout like you aint going to teach me."

>
> As for the guy that published the names of deceased fellow divers, well,
> that was a cheap shot. How low can you get. Here's a question for you. How
> many of those divers would be alive today if they hadn't have been put off
> of DIR by the mentality of the above pondlife. You guys are killing as
many
> as DIR saves.

Wow.

Now *thats* a stretch. It wasnt a cheap shot, it was a list of dead divers.
Who, if asked, would probably agree with the posting, so that, perhaps, some
of you strokes
would shut up, listen, and live.

> As far as the Stroke tee shirt photo goes, it was a wind up and you guys
> took the bait. Hook line and sinker.

<yawn>

> Kevin
>
> PS  See.This is what happens when a dive I was really looking fwd to gets
> cancelled. It's better than going out and kicking the cat.

Yeah, a cat might claw you.

Scott




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