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Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 14:56:44 -0400
To: Paul Braunbehrens <Bakalite@ba*.co*>
From: Capt JT <captjt@mi*.co*>
Subject: Re: Diver dies in DIR --STOP IT!
Cc: hlthcom@ix*.ne*.co* (Barbara/San Francisco), FLTechDiver@mikey.net,
     vbtech@ci*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com
Hell, I'll post it, see if I care. Dude there ain't nothing you or anyone 
else can do to embarrass me, because I really don't care what anyone thinks.

   At 10:23 AM 5/5/02 -0700, Paul Braunbehrens wrote:
>JT, time to call BULLSHIT on your post.  When I posted my DIR F and DIR T1 
>class reports Barbara read them both and made intelligent comments, 
>proving that she wasn't just "skipping through it".  Your subject line is 
>totally unnecessary.  Just because you've come around to taking a DIR 
>class after all this time does not mean shit.  If you post a good class 
>report, people will read it.  There is no need to bait the hook with a 
>dead body like you did.
>
>Come on,  give it up, you blew it.  You know as well as I do that you're 
>somewhat of a "personality" on these lists, and if you had posted an email 
>titled "I failed the Fundamentals class" everybody would have read it as well.
>
>OK, I was going to post this publicly, but I'll save you the 
>embarrassment.  The main reason is that (like me), you are one of the few 
>people willing to post their mistakes, and I respect you for that.  It's 
>one of the best teaching tools, and usually people's ego's prevent them 
>from posting about it.
>
>
>Capt JT wrote:
>~
>>Hi Barbara
>>Yours is the first I got so it will be the only one I answer on the 
>>subject ..... line, poor taste you say. I bet you speed read the 
>>sentences just looking to see who it was that bit it. Would you have done 
>>the same if I just put "My Class" in the subject line or maybe read it 
>>later or not at all. I am one of the most acknowledged divers around, I 
>>paid my dues and did the dives, yet I could not pass the Basic DIR 
>>fundamentals course. Let me pull some key words from your mails.......
>>
>>horrified (from your private email which was lame, you have to do much 
>>better than that and post it for me to even bat an eye)
>>
>>horrified> is when you have been on 3 trips were divers have died and you 
>>come to realize, that you may see it again.
>>
>>Disgusting> when you realize that some consider that acceptable
>>
>>  ultimate goal> do it safer and pass it on
>>
>>sensitivity> I have very little of that and if the truth hurts, you 
>>shouldn't be diving.
>>
>>Before you get your panties in a wad, wait for part 2, should be out over 
>>the weekend.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>At 07:55 PM 5/1/02 -0700, Barbara/San Francisco wrote:
>>>I wrote JT in private. And I want to say to the community that to invoke
>>>death to draw attention to a routine post is ...what?? Sick? Too kind.
>>>Disgusting? Too pedestrian. I don't have a word, and I'm said to be good
>>>with words.
>>>
>>>What the fuck is the matter with people? Has anyone on this list not
>>>lost someone they know to tech diving? Do you want to know what it feels
>>>like to lose someone you love? I'll be happy to tell you. Write me off
>>>list. You will wish you never had asked.
>>>
>>>Is that the ultimate goal, to die? Use some sensitivity
>>. JT owes the
>>>community an apology. I have not recovered bodies but my friends have.
>>>I've seen lots of dead bodies, none of them pretty.  I've broken the
>>>news to families, none of them happy to hear it.
>>>
>>>WTF is wrong with this picture?
>>>
>>>STOP IT! STOP IT NOW!!
>>>
>>>Barbara Dwyer
>>>San Francisco
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: FLTechDiver-owner@mikey.net [mailto:FLTechDiver-owner@mikey.net]
>>>On Behalf Of Capt JT
>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:33 PM
>>>To: vbtech@ci*.co*
>>>Cc: FLTechDiver@mikey.net; techdiver@aquanaut.com
>>>Subject: Diver dies in DIR Fundamentals class part 1
>>>
>>>On April 27& 28 VBtech divers took the DIR Fundamentals class. The class
>>>
>>>came about during the fall when Tom Sawicki (a member of the VBtech
>>>group)
>>>had plan to go out of state to take the class and see if he could become
>>>a
>>><SNIP>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>"You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in 
>>the water"
>>
>>Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more
>>  Web Site  http://www.capt-jt.com/
>>Email     captjt@mi*.co*
>>
>>
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