On 7/15/02 2:07 AM, "Jim Curtis" <jimcurtis@di*.co*> wrote:

> Perhaps your desire for litigation is focused in the
> wrong direction.  Then maybe you
> wouldn't be spending all your time defending yourself.
> 
> Don't bother responding to this, I already see I'm
> wasting my time.
> 
> I believe the line "Me thinks you doth protest too
> much" applies.

Yeah, I'd say you are wasting your time. You're an idiot. And you can't
quote Shakespeare worth shit. The actual line is, "The lady doth protest too
much, methinks." It is a reference to someone who complains so passionately
that something is not true that one begins to suspect that the opposite is
actually the case.

Based on what I've read, that applies far more to yourself than to the
people at GUE who quite legitimately are concerned about a dive operation
that won't take their certification cards for diving.

Certification cards are supposed to be evidence that a diver has met certain
basic standards for competence, safety and health, so it's absurd to suggest
that GUE, a certification agency that has demonstrable higher standards for
training and health than any other in the US, does not meet a standard so
basic that it includes agencies like SSI and Padi! Anyone who has followed
the evolution of GUE knows one thing: they strive to produce the most
competent and safest technical divers in the game. There are a lot of divers
who meet Padi's standards that don't meet GUE's.

And it would be easy enough for the Seeker folks to confirm these standards
by asking for evidence of standards and references from GUE itself. There
are plenty of divers certified by other older agencies who could vouch for
GUE's methods.

What this response by this operation clearly says to anyone smart enough to
read between the lines is, "We don't like the people GUE associates with, so
although their divers clearly meet our standards, we are going to claim that
they don't and so stick it to them." It's a blatant attempt to damage GUE,
their instructors and students. It's clearly not a move to enhance safety,
but to cause harm to an agency that is affiliated with a person who has been
very critical of them. And based on all the CF's I've read about, I'd say
the problem isn't the Seeker accepting GUE, it's why any GUE-trained diver
would _want_ to dive on the Seeker!

Come to think of it, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks," applies
even more to the people who are denying GUE's credentials.

JoeL


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