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I see somebody has taken the liberty of putting words in
my mouth by putting out this message using my name on the
header. While I think this is highly amusing, and basicly
agree with it completely, I feel deprived of the opportunity
to have done this myself, and have to admit to not even
having thouth of it, or I would have done it myself. My only
excuse for not doing this myself is that I overlooked the
obvious - the fact that the reson Tom keeps recommennding
non-optimal gear (like lights with prismatic canisters and
bc's that need a long list of modifications just to use
((per Tom's post)), is that he is a dealer in the stuff. I
really totally forgot this.
I must now relate the story of my friend Bill Mee. The
way I met Bill is that he was our diving with Tom and I was
there on the boat. In the old days Tom would bring his
students out with me around - he doesn't make that mistake
any more. Anyway, Bill and I got to be good friends, but
didn't start diving together unitl much later. It seems, from
what Bill tells me, that Tom sold him a DIve Rite "neutraleak".
Well, let me tell you one thing about Mee - he used to teach
in the engineering school of Brown University (for you dumb
rednecks that is an Ivy League school, like Yale or Harvard).
Just so you necks will understand, they have a hockey team
of the clliber of FSU's footbal team, or at least they
did when I was in college (this is a school you go to
after high school before you start teaching diving)
Needless to say, as he relates the story , laughing, he
can't believe he actually bought a prismatic pressure vessel,
being an engineer, but actually got rid of it for all of the
other usual reasons. He is on here, so he can tell the story
himself. Anyway, he sold it to another of Tom's students
right away. This was before I was even diving with him.
On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, <gmiiii@in*.co*> wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 25 Oct 95, iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* wrote:
>>Just a little news, Lamar Hires swam to the hienkle last night in a set
>>of 104's in 35 minutes by taking the Roller cCoaster short cut. This
>>was quicker than the previosu fastest time by Jim Lockwood in 36
>>minutes and 36 seconds except Jim took no short cuts. AND guess what
>>Lamar was wearing a transpac, butt mounted light with twist head and
>>Apollo, plastic fins. The total dive time was 60 minutes and the entire
>>dive was completed without switching to the stage bottle and 1,000 psig
>>was left over. Starting pressure was 3200.
>
> Let's set the record straight here: Lockwood ended up with
>almost no air, as is typical for him. The only reason Hires would
>wear garbage like this other than on Halloween is that he is paid
>to do so. You also get paid to sell this dogshit - a fact which you
>need to disclose when telling lies like this one on the
>net. The fact reamains that NOBODY who does any REAL technical
>diving dives with this trash. JT
>
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