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Hi Jim, I am sending this message to three separate lists as your message, to which I am replying, was sent to these three same lists. Jim, I guess that your message explains a major portion of the difference between you and me. You see I could never supply gear to anyone that I thought was not the proper gear for that person to be using in any given situation. Your boast of << I sold tons of bullshit stroke gear ... <snip> ... folks have got to sell stuff to pay the bills. You going to make my house payment while I sit on my ass and be a purist? >> , and the rest of your message indicating to me that you knew that what you were selling was not acceptable gear at the time you sold it, is so repulsive that I find it hard to contain my disgust for your actions. It is people like you, using the excuse that "I need to make a living," that are a detriment to the scuba diving industry and IMHO, just possibly the cause of various scuba accidents. "Farm animal stupid" is too kind for you because you knew that what you were doing was wrong at the time you were doing it. Make a living some other way, but not by knowingly placing divers in potentially unacceptably dangerous predicaments. To me, there is no reason to ever supply a diver with unacceptable equipment for him or her to use in any given situation. Either supply acceptable gear or inform the diver that the proposed diving cannot be accomplished safely with the other gear that you have presently for sale. And then offer to help get (special order, alternate supplier, more expensive initially but second hand, etc.) alternative acceptable gear to satisfy the diver's needs. This is known as professionalism and any other course of action is, IMHO grossly irresponsible if not downright criminal. I am certainly glad that your message is in the past tense << ... until a couple weeks ago, I ran a dive shop in Atlanta. >>, as I'd rather not need to think about your still supplying unacceptable equipment to divers. And you profess to support the DIR philosophy??? Is that "use acceptable equipment unless that doesn't sell and then Jim Holcomb can make a little more money by having someone buy unacceptable equipment"? Just whom do you think you're kidding? But then, this is just one instructor's opinion. Take care and dive safe, Scott Some weeks it's just not worth the effort to gnaw through the restraints and scramble up out of the pit. In a message dated 11/7/01 7:59:18 PM, jimholcomb@x-*.co* writes: << Well, in a fucked up kind of way, I agree. But wouldn't it be a whole lot more hypocritical to sell a stroke "stroke" gear. Up until a couple weeks ago, I ran a dive shop in Atlanta. I sold tons of bullshit stroke gear to folks. If you got to sell something to somebody to pay the bills it would probably be better to sell them gear oriented toward the DIR philosophy as opposed to some of that shit I sold. My point being, folks have got to sell stuff to pay the bills. You going to make my house payment while I sit on my ass and be a purist? Better to sell DIR stuff to strokes than stroke shit to strokes. Make any sense????? Jim Holcomb >> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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