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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 06:56:47 -1000 (HST)
From: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*>
To: Carl Heinzl <cgh@ma*.ai*.mi*.ed*>
Cc: Techdiver@terra.net
Subject: Re: speed/depth analogy (was: MORE STUPIDITY...)

> You've got ONE thing wrong - if this was exactly the same, then diving
> deep on air would be ILLEGAL because driving DRUNK is ILLEGAL.  I know
> a LOT of people that used to say - hey I can drive drunk and I've
> never had an accident but that doesn't make their driving any less
> dangerous.  Whatever your excuse, and it is nothing more than an
> excuse, recognize it for what it is.

I imagine that the reason it is illegal to drive drunk, but not illegal 
to dive "deep" on air, is that a drunk driver is much more likely to kill 
*other* people than a deep air diver is.  But then again, if a deep air 
diver's successful efforts prompt a less qualified individual to 
dupliccate such dives with fatal consequences, then the only difference 
is that a drunk driver can be directly responsible for another's demise, 
while a deep air diver would be indirectly responsible.

Aloha,
Rich

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