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x-no-archive:yes From: "Trey" To: "Scott" ; XXXXXXXXX Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 8:44 AM Subject: RE: Hardened > Scott, put this on techdiver Put it on Techdiver, aye. > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 10:10 AM > To: Trey; XXXXX > Subject: Re: Hardened > Its bad and getting worse. IANTD is putting out strokes faster than we can > unfuck them. > > Fucking *CLAUDIA MILZ* is an IANTD Instroketor! Little more than a > year ago she washed out of GUE Cave 1, > she cant admit that fact to anyone (a screaming red flag!), and now she is > an IANTD Instroketor, and her buddy and fiancée > just croaked, but she has a problem > with *me* teaching people to dive Triox! Her arrogance, ego and stupidity > makes Garrett's pale in comparison. > > What gets me is that all these people hate and attack DIR because it > threatens some part of their little minds that lets them > believe they know all when it comes to diving. I guess maybe they need to > think they are the top of the ladder so they aren't scared to go underwater. > > IANTD is becoming a deadly, communicable disease. What going to happen is > the Government is going to get involved, and then kiss off He, home brew > mixing, all of it. Its already, I understand, a pain in the ass to get He in > Florida because of IANTD and the deaths there. I think there should be > enough evidence by now that a class action suit could be brought against > IANTD and Mount, and just sue his ass out of business. The problem is, > people line up to buy that shit! > > Weinberg was a diving motherfucker. Something else was wrong, but I doubt > very seriously we will ever know exactly. > Besides all the damage control and bullshit Mount is proffering, the only > witness is a known liar and egomaniac, Claudia. > And you can bet your eye teeth Mount has been coaching her *very* carefully. > This one was a learning experience for me. What I learned is just what a > lowlife scumbag Mount is. This shit has a pattern that I am just now > beginning to see: > > 1) Accident happens, someone dies. > 2) Mount posts up disinformation and outright conjecture and lies as fact. > 3) People beat him up for his stupidity and stubborn unwillingness to > change, and for the number of stiffs surrounding him. > 4) He falls back on the moral and emotional "high ground" because we dare to > disparage a dead person, and although *he* was first to post conjecture as > fact, he then begins hammering others for doing the same thing he did to > start with. > 5) A few more "facts" surface, and Mount throws the damage control spin on > it, adding to the confusion. > 6) People become polarized, as Mount has turned it into a "Them against Us" > issue. > 7) He stands back and shuts up, and all the "experts" put up theories and > bullshit, and the truth gets lost in the confusion and noise, and the > spotlight is removed from the person it should be shining on most brightly, > Tom Mount. > 8) After the funeral, the deceased is put up as "a great explorer and leader > in the diving community." > > Seems kinda strange how this rebreather keeps killing people, and IANTD > keeps pushing the fucking thing. Anything for an easy buck. > > Bottom line is Garrett was dead before he got out of the cab of his truck. > If not this time, then some other time, as sure and eventual as the > sunrise. I told Ron, Ratfuck, you, and everyone else that would loan me an > ear, two years ago, that Weinberg was going to kill someone or get killed. > > He made several *major* mistakes: > > 1) Having Claudia as a buddy. This right here was the final nail in his > coffin. No matter what his problems were, *she* should have fixed them. Shit > bro, if you and I were diving and you started having inflation problems, I > would grab my trauma shears and cut the friggin inflator hose, or a hole in > the sleeve of your suit, *anything* but watch you float away. *If* that's > even what happened. Claudia's word is a little bit less than worthless. > > 2) Pulling 300 foot bounces on a rebreather just to log a "300 footer". > Guess he wont be bragging this dive off in the parking lot, will he? > > 3) Playing with rebreathers. Again, no more braggin rights. These people are > snobs. They need something to dump $20 grand into, so they can be better > than the next guy. Same shit as buying a fucking "Eddie Bauer" Explorer. > Ego, vanity and arrogance. "When I dive my rebreather..." That's what its > all about. Mount knows *exactly* what he is doing, and so did Weinberg. > > 4) Playing with 300 footers. Ridiculous. Period. > > 5) No support. Zero. Nothing. His accident response is to crawl out onto the > boat ramp, and croak "Call 911" to a passing pedestrian. He may as well have > been diving solo. > > 6) Thinking he was the end all do all diver. I took one nitrox blending > class and nitrox cert class from him, and was in the middle of Adv. Nitrox > when I bailed on him and his "methods". The IANTD training regimen is > designed as much to keep the lawyers happy, and to allow the introketor to > hose the student unnecessarily and repeatedly (ask XXXXXX) as it is teaching > you the skills you need to know to survive underwater. How much you wanna > bet that friggin Expiration harness has a peck strap that fouled the > inflator hose? Why else couldn't he disconnect it or turn off the friggin > bottle? > > I expect the ME and the investigating body to be wowed by Weinberg's stack > of IANTD credentials, confused by the rebreather (the "inspection" was done > three days after Claudia took it home rendering the "inspection" worthless), > and > unable to figure out WTF *really* happened, and rule it an accidental death. > The idiots are already lining it up to blame > his Weezle underwear! > > The thing that killed Garret was IANTD, arrogance, complacency and his > choice of a buddy. > > Through GI (who flamed my ass off many times) you and I have learned to > recognize the beast and run from it. > > These idiots embrace the beast, and it eats them, one by one. Lately, I just > stand by and watch the show. They will either figure it out, or die, and I > dont give a fuck which. They get no sympathy or post mortem respect. > > I bailed out on rec.scuba, the techlist, all of them for now. I just dont > have time or energy to keep battling "wits" with the > likes of know-it-alls like Marvelli, pure dickheads like Michael J. Black, > Tom Mount and the rest of the hardened strokes that buy and wear his bullshit. > > Every now and then I go off on someone on one of these lists, it's just > inevitable. > > I am going to start hammering them on XXXXXX too. It's not going to > become a safe haven for strokery. > > Scott > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: XXXXXXXXXXX > To: Scott > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:31 PM > Subject: Hardened > > > > Hey Scott, > > After Garret's death, I have become really intolerant of the bull > shit. I > > find myself becoming more and more disinterested in dealing with the > dumbness > > and just wanting to start fucking yelling at people. > > Scott, you have had this drilled for a while and have managed to > maintain > > a civil tone on XXXXXXX. I am just getting pissed off when I read the > dumb > > fuckery anywhere. I don't want to even look at strokes and recreational > bull > > shit anymore. When other guys we know croak thru Dive Biz bullshit, I > think I > > will grow even more intolerant, eventually I may just only open e-mail > from > > you, GMI and our boys. > > > > I have had it, > > XXXXXXXXX -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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