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wow, its been years. I guess you never really forget a good bitchslapping. all the best Scottie. Marv PS isnt it funny how the guys who snap and climb a tower with a rifle are either marines, machine shop workers or from the Pacific Northwest? -ajm Scott wrote: > 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'. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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