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Wow! 43 dives and ~8 fatalaties. Give him the benefit of the doubt and cut the deaths in half........thats still almost a 10% rate of fatalaties! Pretty impressive, especially for a neophyte! Usually it takes decades to rack up a body count like that!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Barnette" <aocfishman@ho*.co*> To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 11:23 PM Subject: Definition of a neophyte > Hi JT- > Well, I went ahead and took the time to count up all your technical dives. > Phew! That was worse than doing my taxes. You have racked up a bunch of > dives! Now I can see how you feel you are in a position to call everyone > neophytes. I am including the list below; please feel free to correct the > numbers as I wasn't sure on some of the liveaboard trips (e.g., ANDREA DORIA > trips) exactly how many dives you did. Since I was in the area at the time, > I don't recall you doing too many other tech dives aside from the USS > WASHINGTON (first dove almost 10 years earlier) and your first ANDREA DORIA > trip. I would be curious to learn about your trimix training and how many > work-up dives you did before doing these super deep dives. I understand > (from your own website - re: "seasoning") that there must have been some > prior discussion about your lack of intermediate technical dive experience > before doing your first Billy Mitchell trip. Care to share your early > technical diving experience, since it is not to be found on your website? > Surely you did not just do a DORIA trip or the WASHINGTON without conducting > a significant number of less demanding technical dives first? > > In any case, here is the list I came up with: > > 1998 (4) > ANDREA DORIA (3) > USS WASHINGTON > > 1999 (11) > MANUELA > MALCHACE > V-43 > G-102 > OCEAN VENTURE > ANDREA DORIA (3) > OSTFRIESLAND > FRANKFURT > OCEAN VENTURE > > 2000 (9) > SKYCLIFFE > ANDE > MANUELA > U-140 > U-117 > OSTFRIESLAND > OCEAN VENTURE > USS WASHINGTON > VITRIC > > 2001 (15) > 490FSW SAND DIVE > SKYCLIFFE > HYDRO ATLANTIC > ANDREA DORIA (9??) > ETHEL C > LAKE JOCASSEE > OSTFRIESLAND > > 2002 (4) > U-117 > ETHEL C > OSTFRIESLAND > LAKE JOCASSEE > > 2003 (0) > > You really have been a busy redneck JT! Looks like you have 43 dives past > 150fsw from 1998 - 2003 (six-year average of seven dives; five year average > of eight dives), according to your own website. Impressive! > In the event I am wrong, and you do not have all your dives posted on your > website (even though you said you did), let's go ahead and put a 100% error > factor in that running total. So, that would give you 86 dives past 150fsw > over five years. Now I see where you have developed this arrogant attitude > of yours. Well earned indeed! > > I stand corrected JT. My sincere apologies. > > List, JT has obviously earned the right to call everyone who poses a > question or anyone that disagrees with him a neophyte. Anyone that even > suggests JT is anything but an experienced, competent, super-diver should > just be ashamed of themselves. > > Laughing hysterically, > Mike > > > Michael C. Barnette > Association of Underwater Explorers > Because it's there...somewhere...maybe. > http://www.mikey.net/aue > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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