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Good morning JT- First, please let me apologize to you. Several people have pointed out that it is not fair that I use Latin phrases in my posts to you, since you have a hard enough time with English. My apologies. While these individuals requested that I keep my posts as simple as possible for you, I think it would be inappropriate and inexcusable of me to allow you to continue to wallow in nescience. There is a whole world out there past the fourth grade for you to experience JT -- carpe diem (seize the day)! In any case, as you know I went ahead and tallied your list of technical dives past 150fsw, since you would not do it yourself. Don't worry, based on your difficulty with the English language, one can only assume you have the same issues with basic mathematics. As a refresher: "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 offered to do the same with my diving resume, which I now offer as a comparison; I remind you, however, that I consider myself a neophyte. Unfortunately, I only had my monthly logs from January 2000, and for some reason I am missing my log from August 2000, so this may not be a very even comparison. If you want, I can backtrack and list the actual wrecks (specific sites are not included in my logs), but that may take a bit longer. But I think we can work past that... 2000 (36) 2001 (50) 2002 (25) 2003 (8) Total 2000 - 2003 = 119. In contrast, you have completed 43 dives over six years. However, since you claim that I am a liar (i.e., lair), let's go ahead and adjust my total with a 50% error factor. That would result in a total of 60 dives over those four years. So, if you happened to omit a large percentage of your technical dives (though you have stated that they are all represented on your website) and we double your dives, and I am a liar (i.e., lair) and halved my dives, then, yes, you would have more technical dives completed. But then again, I am just a neophyte. We all stand in shock and awe of your accomplishments JT. Best wishes, Mike Michael C. Barnette Association of Underwater Explorers Because it's there...somewhere...maybe. http://www.mikey.net/aue _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 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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