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Mike, I'm real impressed. Funny that you look like a muppet. Mike, I don't dive with strokes - what you pulled is stroke shit. Obviously you are getting pretty good at explaining clusterfucks and my guess is that you have had plenty of practice. From: "Mike Rodriguez" <mikey@ma*.co*> To: "Trey" <trey@ne*.co*> Cc: "Michael Barnette" <aocfishman@ho*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 6:20 PM Subject: Re: AUE Weekend Dive Report > At 03:10 PM 10/14/2000 -0400, Trey wrote: > > >Mike , your judgment sucks. > > Wow, George, and 18,000 feet back in a cave is good judgement because > you say it is. > > George, I fly airplanes, I fly helicopters, I skydive, I BASE jump, > I tech dive, I cave dive, I have raced motorcycles and climbed > mountains, I've flown hang-gliders, and I've done a lot of other > things for the better part of two decades that, if I had poor judgement, > would have killed me a long time ago. I'm still here and without a > scratch. Get real. > > >You and Blitch, whose judgment also sucks ( I > >know since he a WKPP support diver and will remain one until his judgment > >improves, starting with observing Rule Number One) , jumped overboard 85 > >miles offshore and dropped down a dangling anchor line with the "hope" of > >swimming around in THREE HUNDRED FEET OF WATER and finding a wreck that was > >not showing clearly on the sounder - real fucking smart. > > When I jumped in the water not only was the Washington showing > clearly on the sounder, but the down-line was *secured to the wreck*; > it was not "dangling". Where are you getting your information? > > When we reached the wreck, the hook had come off the wreck and was > in the sand next to the ship. There was very little scope available, > and we were unable to reattached the hook. > > Now, what you call poor judgment, I call a decision. Blitch and I > left the down-line and dove the wreck rather than return to the > surface after considering the parameters of the dive. There was > absolutely no current whatever, it was early in the day and the sun > was bright. The sea was dead flat and the wind was calm; the forecast > called for more of the same. A chase-boat was available, and the > captain was experienced with the type of diving we were doing. All of > this lead us to a *considered decision* to continue the dive. > > >Then, you two got > >there and got lucky > > Luck had nothing to do with it. Why is it that when someone's results > are good you call it luck, and whey their results are bad, you call it > strokedom? > > >the anchor was indeed on the wreck, > > It was in the sand next to the wreck. Had it not been, I would have > aborted the dive. > > >BUT you failed to > >secure it > > We tried and couldn't. So what? > > >Then, Kane had to come find your ass > > I never even saw Kane on that dive, and my ass didn't need finding > anyway. What's up with "rescuing" someone who doesn't need it. > > >I don't dive with people who do shit like that, Mike, and this is why. > > Seems antisocial to me. > > -Mike Rodriguez > <mikey@mi*.ne*> > http://www.mikey.net/aue > Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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