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Unzipped drysuit? Correct these guys, please. There was no incident. I go
diving at the public sites once in a blue moon and only in this case to work
on drills with my friend and dive partner , Pina, and the idiots go nuts. JJ
and Casey had to shoot a couple of TV fill in shots and they got the same
kind of bullshit badmouthing also. Anyone who is not a mutant trailer rat
with stroke gear gets lied about when they show up at a public dive site in
"cave country". Usually we dive the WKP, but it was blacked out.

These "cave divers" around Peacock built steps to the water to make it
"easier" to teach diving there ( to get the fat slob instructors into the
water ), and the problem is they are a few feet out of the water now. I took
one look at that and just rolled off into the water rather than trying to
deal with it.

The difference between me and the fat slobs is that I can swim in drysuit
with 104's with no fins, put them on in the water, and my regs are located
in DIR in such a fashion that I could get to them handcuffed. I did not even
waste any gas doing this, so I guess that freaked the slobs out. I live in
the water.

These guys want so badly to find something to say about me, and all they can
ever come up with is bullshit. If I were not so right, they would not be so
threatened all the time. And after they finish with all of their bullshit
about me ( most of them include badmouthing me as part of any cave course),
they have to then answer such questions as , "who the hell put the line in
Wakulla out 19,000 feet?",  and they have to say, "the guy who we said fell
in the water and drowned".

Thanks for the heads up, Robert, I'll take this up with that fat slob in
person next time I see him. He never seems to have anything to say to me in
person, but then nobody ever does. Gee, I wonder why?

The fact is that while things happen in all activities like this, and we
have all done things like starting a dive with no fins, my personal favorite
of no mask, forgetting to zip a suit or my specialty , forgetting to hook up
my dick to my pee valve, DIR gear configurations and DIR procedures do not
cause accidents, they are designed to eliminate or reduce the KNOWN causes
of accidents that the dive community tries to pretend do not exist.
VIOLATIONS of these principles and practices can almost invariably be shown
to either cause or contribute significantly to accidents.

The big issue here is that "instructors" like Rennaker have taught bullshit
for years and are the ones "covering up" by refusing to recognize the
problems and make the appropriate changes. This is why we now have GUE, and
in WKPP with me running it, that has never been an issue, and obviously has
much to do with our enviable safety record given the extreme nature of what
we do and the massive frequency with which we do it, the huge number of
people we let do it, and the size of each dive operation that at times can
in volve as many as 100 dives in one day. EVERY successful dive project out
there now uses DIR methods and WKPP procedures, and the list of people
trying to get into GUE as participants is in the hundreds now, and the
waiting list just to help at WKPP is off the charts.

Renaker , the CDS, the NACD and the whole Hee Haw Gang in Central Florida
have zilch to offer this sport, can not come up with one single constructive
thing to say about anything, they can not come up with one successful
argument against anything I am saying,and have been saying for ten years,
and all they can do is lie and spread bullshit, like the trailer trash that
they all so clearly are. If they were not wrong and scared, they would not
be doing this.

It is amazing to me that they do not even have the balls to put the lies out
themselves, but send them to people who are not involved at all and let them
do the public lying for them. This should tell all something, and that
something is clearly "AVOID the goobers at all costs".

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert L. Dawson [mailto:Bob@Ro*.Or*]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 8:46 PM
To: trey@ne*.co*
Subject: Thank you...


I just got involved in a thread of messages about an exaggerated incident
at Peacock. In the thread I was referred to as some anonymous DIR Lord and
Master who fucked up. I was initially a little bit pissed about how
exaggerated the account was (Unzipped drysuit as opposed to leak at the
zipper), but it made me stop and think for a moment... About what was
actually being attacked.


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