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  Someone wrote:-> From: TecMaster <TecMaster@ao*.co*>

> ... hanging at your 10ft stop, thinking you were home free when Odom pinched
> you on the arse and you thought you had been 'nipped' by one of the many
> sharks buzzing about ... if you hadn't had on your heavier rebreather
> weightbelt with that extra weight, I swear you would have rocketed out of
> the water onto the dive boat, the rest of your stop be damned! ...

NOT funny. There have been serious bends incidents and expensive emergency
service callouts because of decompression stops aborted due to threatening
sharks. Such a silly clown trick as described hereinable risking someone's
safety deserves all the flame and reprimand available. DO NOT CLOWN ABOUT IN
OR NEAR THE WATER. DO NOT CLOWN ABOUT WITH DIVING GEAR. What if he had aborted
his stops because of the silly false alarm of shark, got bends, tied up a
helicopter etc getting him to a chamber, tied up the chamber decompressing
him, and then another emergency, diving or otherwise, arose and couldn't be
attended to properly because emergency facilities were already tied up? NOT
the sort of thing to give divers a good name with a government or other
authority which at the time is wondering whether or not to pass laws
restricting or controlling scuba diving!

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