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In a message dated 08/04/2000 1:06:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jjcook@av*.ne* writes: << Please excuse my ignorance... We will, this time. <<Is it really bad for someone like Tony Maffatone to work with new ideas and try <<them out? >> These were not new ideas, as a matter of fact, they were long ago proven deadly. And, when an old deadly idea is trotted out in front of an audience the size of ABC's, and touted as the latest and greatest in classic P. T. Barnum style, and then a few days later the guy DIES diving it, (eerily predicted on this very list a few days ago) it does little to improve any image of diving. <<Granted, he may have made a terrible mistake but isn't that how big <<discoveries are made? I kinda thought that was part of the adventure to all of this. <<Did the first rebreather work perfectly the first time? >> No it didn't, and in *most* cases the stupidity was weeded out, though people are still using rebreathers with proven deadly features. I seem to be missing the "adventure" in that. Russian roulette, adventurous? Hardly, more like insane, stupid, ignorant. Hey wait I know, SUICIDAL. << I am not condoning stupidity and since I don't know exactly what Tony was doing <<it may very well have been stupid. >> Yes, it was. <> How about "lived doing something he very much enjoyed"? I know that's going to remain *my* plan. <<How many of us get to say that?>> Umm, my guess is *none* ? Peace, Jerred Kevin -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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