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From: "Richard Pyle" <deepreef@bi*.or*>
To: "Trey" <trey@ne*.co*>, "TechDiver List" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: RE: Hypocrisy is DCS in DIR
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:36:33 -1000

I don't expect you to remember anything.  I just expect you to refrain from
lying about me.  Also, as I would have assumed that you already knew (but
maybe not) -- it's the "weenie" dives that get you.  That was the main
reason I posted the details of that incident.

Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trey [mailto:trey@ne*.co*]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 4:29 AM
> To: Richard Pyle; TechDiver List
> Subject: Re: Hypocrisy is DCS in DIR
>
>
> Rich, a weenie dive is a weenie dive - don't expect me
> to remember all the details every time you get bent -
> I don't consider any of your dives to require more
> than a safety stop and a vivid imagination.
>
> Actually, the reference to your dives was not
> dependent on the details,but only the fact that you
> reported it. I was being accused of being an idiot for
> getting skin bends,while you were being praised for
> reporting your bends cases in the same post.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.or*>
> To: TechDiver List <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 7:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Hypocrisy is DCS in DIR
>
>
> >Slow down, there, Chief.  You should consider
> yourself pretty lucky that I
> >don't step in every time you lie about other people,
> or else our usual
> >"game" would dominate the traffic on the list. But
> when you lie about me
> >(=everytime you mention my name on the list), you
> know that I can't let it
> >go.  I have no recollection of ever getting bends
> symptoms after any
> >45-minute
> >dive to 90 feet.  Maybe you're confusing it with the
> time I got bends
> >symptoms
> >after a dive where I spent twice that much time at
> depths 10-40 feet deeper?
> >That
> >was a decompression dive, and I had to discard
> two-thirds of the required
> >deco due
> >to unexpectedly unfriendly "natives".
> >
> >Now, be a big boy, stick your tail between your legs,
> and leave me out of
> >it.
> >
> >Rich
> >
> >> > Jeff, you see we are considered to have an unfair
> advantage since we try
> >> to
> >> > do what it takes, not take what comes. Richie is
> easy for them to
> >identify
> >> > with - he is telling them their worst inner
> fears - they want to hear
> >it,
> >> > not that it is bullshit and we DIR. Pyle got
> paralized on a 45 minute
> >1.4
> >> > ppo2 dive at 90 feet - a no deco dive. That is
> the kind of shit they
> >love
> >> to
> >> > eat with a spoon.
> >> >
> >> > From: Jeff Bentley <jeff@be*.co*>
> >> > To: Michael J. Black <mjblackmd@ya*.co*>
> >> > Cc: Aquanaut Mail <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> >> > Date: Friday, June 30, 2000 8:53 PM
> >> > Subject: Re: Hypocrisy is DCS in DIR
> >> >
> >> > >Let's see.. which example should I follow?
> >> > >
> >> > >A) The DIR example where skin bends can be
> viewed as part
> >> > >   of the "learning your individual deco limits"
> process
> >> > >
> >> > >or
> >> > >
> >> > >B) The Rich Pyle example where you dive deep,
> get paralyzed,
> >> > >   and tell everyone about your screwup
> >> > >
> >> > >hmmm....
> >> > >Jeff
> >> > >
> >> > >"Michael J. Black" wrote:
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Someone's missing the point.  When DCS happens
> to DIR divers like
> >> > >> Trey and his minions, it blows DIR Myth 1 out
> of the water (DIR has
> >> > >> had NO fatalaties or accidents).
> >> > >>
> >> > >> When you DIR loudmouths preach that you've
> never been hurt (as
> >> > >> Volker once said, "not even had the slightest
> twinge") I suspect
> >> > >> you are FOS, and your DCS (slobitis)
> confessions merely prove it.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I believe Richie Pyle did us all a great
> service by posting his
> >> > >> bout with severe DCS.  You DIR guys keep
> pounding your chests about
> >> > >> how infallible you are, and then suddenly the
> truth reveals itself,
> >> > >> and you have a knipshin when MJB points out
> your hypocrisy.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> And in true DIR style, you point the finger
> and accuse someone
> >> > >> else (me) of being a hypocrite.  Sorry, but I
> don't follow your
> >> > >> logic, or lack of.  Got any more skeletons in
> your closet?
> >> > >>
> >> > >> MJB
> >> > >>
> >> > >>
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> >> Richard L. Pyle
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