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Well, Jason, if you wanna know about techdiving, here it is in a nutshell: You breath high Partial Pressures of gas underwater until you get to the point that if you go straight to the surface you will fizz up like an opened bottle of champagne and die either quickly (cerebral embolism) or slowly and painfully (get bent). If you are lucky you many only get crippled for life. The goal of techdiving is to avoid the above. At this point any sensible person would have ask him or herself "why on earth would I want to do this?" (if you have not asked yourself this question lately, fellow techdivers, then you all are nuttier than a fruitcake). Well the answer in my case is to see more wrecks. What is there to see in a wreck? Basically stuff that very few other people get to see. And as this planet gets more crowded, that's saying something. The deeper the wreck, the less people have seen it. Around here there are wrecks where more people have been to the moon than have dove on them. I call this the "exploration motivation." With others it's to see how deep/narced/scared they can get and come back alive. I call this the "life ain't worth living until you've scared the shit out of yourself" motivation. You generally kind of want to avoid this type of person, but they are fun to watch. At some point in a divers career he or she has to decide whether or not doing the 80 cuft thing is really the be-all and end-all of diving. At this point one has to consider if going into decompression mode is something one really wants to do as it involves quite a commitment in training and equipment. If you decide "yes, I want to spend more time underwater" then there are a couple of ways of going about it. One way is to go the "God protects fools and drunks" route. Armed with your 100 Bonaire dives, find a instructor out at the local dive shop, buy the 30 page manuals, and 5 or 6 dives later, you get your card and off you go. Maybe you will survive. Maybe you won't. The other route is the "hey, this sport could kill me and I had better take responsibility for my own life and do some serious research" route. By joining techdiver and reading all you can from the archives is a good start. That should give you a list of links and books to read. Hopefully this new-found knowledge will allow you to make an educated decision and allow you to select an instructor and program will give maximum survivability, certainly a goal worth pursuing. So, go to my website and check out all the links, look at the AQUAcorps archive in it's entirety and then figure out if techdiving is what you want to do. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > From: <IHOPPOET@ao*.co*> > Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:55:14 EDT > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: nice words? > > In a message dated 4/14/00 1:18:38 PM Central Daylight Time, > cobber@ci*.co* writes: > > << > In the meantime why don't you sitdown and shutup or do a post which offers > real information or asks a legitimate question, you wussyboy. >> > > Hey Cob the checks in the mail, or do you take visa? As far as real info on > tech diving, well if I had some I would be happy to give it to you. However, > I am hear to learn, not teach. As far as asking legitimate questions, again I > do not know enough about this topic to do so. However, I now see that your > the man to pump, poke, and prod for info, so rest assured I will poke and > prod you as often as I can. I would like to take this time to thank you for > your offer I.E. "or asks a legitimate question." It so nice of you to extend > your vast knowledge of tech diving to all of us new to it, and to knowing put > yourself in the position to be annoyed by me and others like me on a daily > basis, lets just hope its not to the point that you pull the rest of your > hair out. By the way, how much hair is left on your vastly intelligent head? > > P.S. Hey I kind of like this mud throwing, lol. But really I don't know much > about tech diving, so is there any info starting point that anyone here would > recommend I look up? At least enough info to help me bug the hell out of Cob. > > Thank you > Jason Miller > > find out about training from > LGS, DRI, and other psd orgs > join the psd events list at: > http://www.onelist.com/community/PSD-events > <A HREF="http://www.onelist.com/community/PSD-events">ONElist : PSD-events</A >> > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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