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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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