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Al, I'll take you up on the free trip, but not because I don't already wreck dive. The quarry is a place to get a good freshwater rinse of my gear when the ocean is kicking, I find it incredibly boring to dive there, but it is fun to people watch. I too agree that with such great diving (only 30 minutes to the boats in Pt Pleasant for me) it is a shame that so many are quarry confined. Let me know when you want to take me.... d Al Marvelli <ajmarve@ba*.ne*> on 04/19/2000 01:25:09 AM Please respond to ajmarve@ba*.ne* To: Daniel Smith/USATC/NA/COLPAL@co* cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com bcc: Subject: Re: DIR in the Northeast Actually that quarry is the biggest stroke breeding ground ever made. Let me ask you this: what are planning on diving? Where are you going to go? What are you going to do when you get there? Way too many people are learning to dive in quarries and only diving in quarries, know nothing else but diving in quarries and have NEVER EVER been in the ocean. Why?? Because the local shop people feel emasculated when they get seasick on a boat, especially when the crew doesnt, and they are supposed to be instructor dive gods. As a result they take all their people to the quarry and breed quarry divers who leave the sport after two years or less, because they never experience the wonder of the ocean. They have total control in the quarry, and as a result the sloppy training kills fewer< notice I didnt say none> of the students and the students dont get to see how inept their instructors are. Usually. And this is a place where the worlds best wreck diving is one hour away by car. Instead of driving to the boats they drive three hours to the local mud swamp. Dont get me wrong, the quarry is fine for confined water training, but you cannot learn to DIVE there, you can only learn how to operate scuba gear underwater. THis was not mant as a personal attack on Daniel Smith, Dan, come up to Brooklyn and Ill pay for you and a buddy to come see a shipwreck. We need our local DIR crowd to step up and dive in the Ocean, the local boats are dying off because of this damn tourist mud puddle. Regards, Al Marvelli Daniel Smith wrote: > This goes out to all who say that DIR is not catching on. I did some diving > this weekend at a PA quarry that is commonly used for checkout dives for almost > all the New Jersey Shops. It is really a fun place to checkout some of the CFs > that people are calling gear rigging. Well, I think I counted 15-20 divers that > were DIR, or at least approaching DIR. Now last year, there were none. So > something is starting to click up here. I even saw one shop taking pictures of > the gear configurations, probably for a newsletter or website. > > DIR is spreading. > > regards, > > dan > > -- > 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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