John,

You could not be further off base!

I would encourage you to visit Hawaii. The culture is laid back, safe and
the weather is about 80 nearly year round. Once there, dive with a few
operators - hum - try to find He... or for that matter, any operator that
uses modern deep diving techniques, and you will find the George is correct
again - not kissing $%#@.  I know that you have bad blood for him, but that
does not change the facts.

There is only one operator that will be able to provide this type of
diving.....

John, check out this link for more information www.diveteckadventures.com
You don't have to use a Gavin, I know that would bother you. Garry also has
torpedoes and farallons ;-)

I assure you that you will have a great time!

Jt




John Ivanic wrote>>>KISSS SOME MORE ASS, YOU IDIOT

George Irvine wrote:

> It is really good to see that the things that make sense in diving are
> being quickly adopted by thinking people, and that the influence of the
> idiots is quickly waning. Pina and I were very happy with Gary's
operation.
> He has a perfect boat, his partner and captain is squared away, his
buddies
> are squared away, his gas setup and equipment is first class, and he is
> running a stroke-free operation.
>
> Hawaii is a place where you can dive all the time, and it shows in the
> innate skills of the divers we met.  Amazingly, in a place where the water
> can be hundreds, if not thousands of feet deep right up against the shore
> in places, and the vis is good and temp moderate, you do not see the deep
> air nonsense and accidents occurring. It appears that Hawaii has a higher
> order of inhabitants and visitors than are found elsewhere. I noticed that
> people do not even lock their cars or put the tops up on their
convertibles
> when they leave them, the cops drive their own cars rather than police
> cars, and everyone seems quite proud of doing things in a proper fashion.
>
> The fishing is awesome, and the boats perfect. those people took as much
> pride in doing it right on the rip as Gary's people did in doing it right
> in diving. I fished on a Merritt boat , built right here in Pompano Beach,
> that looked like it just came out of Merritt's yard, with all the best
> equipment and squared away crew.
>
> The island itself is a wonder. Pina and I drove all around it one day and
> went to the volcano at night on the 4th - spectacular, better than
> fireworks. This is the perfect place to either go for vacation, diving ,
> training, or as a halfway point to the other pacific islands. We stayed in
> Gary's condo on the beach, where you hear the surf breaking all the time
> and people are out in front surfing all day long. His 'classroom" is on a
> mountain looking over all of Kona and the Pacific - a must see.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gard Wilson [mailto:garry@ko*.co*]
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:17 AM
> To: QUEST@gu*.co*; Jim Thompson; Tech Diver List
> Cc: Keith Keizer
> Subject: Gavins
>
> Jim/Quest/Tech Divers:
>
> George and Pina joined us in Kona, Hawaii for several days of diving - he
> graciously came over to train us to service Gavin Scooters for the Pacific
> Islands.  We dove for several days with them on Gavins and they are very,
> very good divers.  They are also really nice people and a fountain of
> information.  We have learned a lot about Gavins, safety issues,
equipment,
> decompression and diving in general - we will be making some changes to
our
> operation.
> George also gave a talk on equipment, DIR principles and decompression
which
> was well received by local divers.
> We will be putting pictures from George¹s visit on our web site shortly
for
> those interested.
>
> George, do you have any comments you would like to add?
>
> Garry
>
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