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>>>>an accident on the Miss Lindsey and he did not know I was on the >>>>boat when it happened Which fatality was this? Number 7 or number 8? I know you have many "notches" on your weight belt so I was just curious as to whose death you were talking about. BTW, happy birthday. Your pal, Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Capt JT" <captjt@mi*.co*> To: "Michael Barnette" <aocfishman@ho*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 6:52 PM Subject: RE: Fatal Depth > Mike as usual you are full of shit. You are right about the year with DQ, > but that is it. I have for your benefit added a couple of photos to my > site, they have the Lobster in question and the date on the photo along > with the guy who got it......not me. But if it hurts your feelings so bad > how he got it I will call him and tell him what a bad boy he was. > Look here for the lobster.... www.capt-jt.com/4adry.htm > > Now as for me and my boat..... when you call see if he has the balls to > admit he asked me to run for his shop when it first opened and Dusty asked > me to Capt his boat before he stopped booking through there. Then ask about > the last time I came in there and I caught him saying bullshit that was not > true about an accident on the Miss Lindsey and he did not know I was on the > boat when it happened and I confronted him to his face over it. I have my > witnesses who were there when this happened. > > Get your dive buddy who sent me the photos of you guys removing artifacts > off the Vitric when you thought it was a protected wreck, have him give me > permission to place them on my site since he has his copy right mark on > them and everyone will see the real you or are you the pussy I say you are > and won't do it. I will not altar them or change them.......the title he > put on them says it all. Just have him give me permission is all I need. > > Next time don't be such a pussy and add me to the email address when you > answer. > > At 04:45 AM 4/4/03 +0000, Michael Barnette wrote: > >Hi JT- > >I see you are up to your usual antics and "spreading the word according to > >JT." You can't answer a straight-forward question can you? Instead, you > >go off on a tangent and try and bait someone else to take the focus off you. > >Well okie-dokie. > > > >I guess the year I first saw you come into the shop was '97 or so (I can > >call up there tomorrow to see when I started working part-time at the > >shop). However, I believe I first saw you at a Norfolk dive club meeting > >when I first moved into the area in '96. You were peddling charters on > >that POS (POS: piece of shit) bassboat of yours. In any case, the bottom > >line is you are again FOS (FOS: full of shit). I bought my first set of > >doubles right after moving into the area from Mike Boring in early '96. I > >had been diving them about a year or so before the shop in question even > >opened. I knew how to fill doubles. If I seemed like I didn't want to > >fill yours, it is because I didn't. No one in the shop wanted to. No one > >could stand you. You would swagger in with your charter groupies yapping > >non-stop, and crowd around the fill station trying to impress everyone > >with your heroic tales of nabbing monster lobsters or whatever other > >nonsense spewed from your mouth. Do you recall that chain going up just > >past the bathrooms? > >That was the "JT chain" - it would allow us to relax amidst the peace and > >quiet of the running compressor and away from your jabbering noise. > > > >Let's get real JT. While you were annoying, one of the big reasons I came > >to dislike you was the day you called everyone in the shop to come out to > >see the critters you rounded up on one of your dive trips. Do you recall > >this, and do you remember who was in the parking lot? You whip out a nice > >sized lobster from your cooler -- a dead lobster with a big spear hole in > >its head. You stated something along the lines of "well, that's the only > >way I could have got him." We pretty much called you a moron and walked > >away, leaving you holding that lobster in the parking lot by > >yourself. Then there were the stories of you scrubbing berried lobsters > >on your dives. > >Call me a fish-hugger all you want, but it beats being an ignorant redneck. > >Anyway, you never came back to the shop after that parking lot episode. I > >wonder why? Oh yeah, it was because I didn't know how to fill up your > >doubles. r-i-g-h-t. I guess you also saw me smoking cigarettes back then too? > > > >Again, instead of answering a question you have to turn it on someone else. > >That is your modus operandi. If you don't like someone or something, you > >insult and belittle them. Good for you tough guy. > > > >You know what though, in the scheme of things, I am very much a neophyte > >(just so you don't have to waste your time trying to "expose" me: while I > >did all the air/air BS for a couple of years, I didn't get mix certified > >until early '99; did the PADI IDC in '98 - moved before the IE; rescue > >back in '94 [I think? - ask my instructor Joey Dituri or fellow student > >John Rose as they were there too]; and oh, I first got scuba certified in > >'90). JT, until my years of technical diving activity surpass a decade or > >two, and until my technical dives easily exceed four or five digits, I > >will still consider myself a neophyte. It'll be a while. I don't try to > >fool myself and think otherwise. Unfortunately, there are a lot of fools > >out there, and you are trying to be their king. For example, only a fool > >would think that depth and/or time alone is a measure of > >competency. However, if you want to play this out to the bitter end, I > >would be happy to tally up the few technical dives I have done since '99 > >(since I had to log my exact number of dives - not rounded off - to stay > >proficient in the NDP), and then I will compare that to the numerous dives > >you have done in your long and illustrious technical diving career. Let > >me get back to you, as it may take a while to do all the higher math when > >calculating your technical diving resume. Just so I don't cheat you out > >of a couple precious feet, what was the *exact* depth on that 490fsw > >accomplish-nothing, waste-of-helium, sand dive? > > > >JT, you baited me to try and take the attention off you. However, I am > >not the one yapping about how no one can measure up to me, or calling > >people neophytes to avoid the truth. So go ahead, consult your > >word-of-the-day toilet paper and think up some witty comeback. Go ahead > >and talk about all the cover-ups and how I am nothing but a punk. Go > >ahead and try and convince everyone that you only tell the "truth", and > >never lie or contort things all out of shape. I expect nothing less of you. > > > >JT, the *real* truth hurts doesn't it? > > > >Game on jackass. > > > >Oh, be sure to have a real nice day. > > > >All my love, > >Mike > > > >Michael C. Barnette > >Association of Underwater Explorers > >Because it's there...somewhere...maybe. > >http://www.mikey.net/aue > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. 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