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Pina, Sheck Exley was a nice guy. He never would tell anyone they were wrong about anything. I never heard him badmouth anyone but Tom and his buddy Jim Lockwood. Nobody ever listened to Sheck when he was right, but they all tried to imitate the things he did wrong. Same goes for Bill Gavin, Bill Main, or any of the others. When Exley started diving with me, and changed his last little ways that needed changing, he wrote and article for the CDS magazine describing diving with me and used the phrase, "George has taken the risk out of this kind of diving", and the BOD fired the editor and refused to ever print his article. This is because my ways in the WKPP were at such a stark contrast to the crap being taught by every agency, not because I am not a nice guy. In a very short time of being blunt and to the point and hammering the obvious idiots, I have forced more change in a the fast growing sport of tech diving than anyone else could have by any other means. It is and was the only way. There is no time to wait for people to get the message by coddling - they never will. Being a stroke has to be like being a leper, or sooner or later none of us will be allowed to dive anywhere. Even the worst morons have had to change a good part of their ridiculous programs - look at IANTD and TDI. Sooner or later the last of the hardened idiots will fade out, and things can progress like they were never there. -----Original Message----- From: pina [mailto:pina3@be*.ne*] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:14 AM To: Trey; Techdiver List Subject: RE: who do you learn from? I saw the comment before and had a little laugh about it - but thought that I had better not dare let them all know what a nice person you really are. I saw that quality from day one, before we had even met. That is what intrigued me so much. It was obvious to me that you are a very kind and concerned individual who goes to great lengths to protect the safety of people you don't even know. I could not exactly understand why you cared to impart your knowledge to all the idiots who don't appreciate it, but was very thankful to finally have a source of information that made logical sense. I saw right through the tone of your posts and recognized it as an effective technique of communication for the audience you faced. But then again, I had no ego to protect regarding diving so all I saw was the reality and its benefit. I don't think people's attitude towards you has anything to do with experience or inexperience, but moreso ego, self-image and capacity to reason. --pina -----Original Message----- From: Trey [mailto:trey@ne*.co*] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:02 AM To: Jerry Gilbert; billy@v3*.co*.au*; Techdiver List Subject: RE: who do you learn from? There is only one person who can answer this one. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Gilbert [mailto:CaptainJerry@Ta*.Co*] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:29 PM To: billy@v3*.co*.au*; Techdiver List Subject: RE:who do you learn from? Is it possible George gets a "Bad Rap" about not being a cuddly, gentler, kinder, caring individual? -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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