Amen... Fire Station air?  ICK! (and kinda scary too...)

When I managed SanDiego Diver's Supply (long before they went belly-up and
became a "discount outlet") our insurance would not allow filling w/ Navy or
other Public Service cards... (This included the lifeguards who, for the
most part, were better divers than most instructors I knew.) The Navy in
SanDiego was very good about making sure all of their guys Also had PADI
cards so they could dive off-base. I think one of their instructors was also
an active PADI guy.

I worked a deal with the lifeguards so they could fill empty spaces in my
classes for free... boy did that ever pay off! Every single one of those
guys (close to 100 in my year there) bought gear and kept coming back for
more.... created some very loyal customers. (Hmm, this is beginning to touch
on the economics thread...that didn't work well with other types of folk,
but the lifeguards were great.)

My 2 cents worth...

-Case
diveman@cy*.co*

----- Original Message -----
From: William Gearman <gearman_1@ya*.co*>
To: <IHOPPOET@ao*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: nice words?


> Ok PancakePoet,
>
> For starters, why don't you ask Jim why he would
> have better sense than to go get air from a "Fire
> Department" pump like you told the Navy guys to
> do.  Of course, they already know why they would
> not use it. Question is, why are you breathing
> it?
>
> BTW, I honor Navy cards! Might question yours
> though....
>
> WG
>
> --- IHOPPOET@ao*.co* wrote:
> > 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
> > >
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