On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:34:05 +0200, Giovanni Marola
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>...
>> Old adage or not, I could see Giovanni's arse being kicked for his use
>> of dive computers <g>, and my arse being kicked for my disbelif in the
>> 'buddy system' <G>.
>
>Sorry Bob
>however during my last dive I lost my buddy because I followed a
>diver, belonging to an other group, who had fins with the same colour.

That's slightly better than following the light of the moon (without a
buddy of course) trying to get back to the boat after wandering far
off in a night dive.

>My buddy realized my mistake and was able to reach me again.
>At this point having lost contact with our group we lost the orientation
>and when we surfaced without air we were in a point with very strong
>waves near the reef (it was a shore dive). We had to do a lot of effort
>for reaching the only safe point where the other guys and in a very special
>manner a Lady kiked my arse very hardly, but NOT FOR THE USE
>OF DIVE COMPUTER. :-))))
>Giovanni

Gio, I was musing over the predicament foreigners like ourselves
might get into by our use of the words "hard" and "hardly" in the
abominable language called 'English'.   'A lady kicked my arse hard'
is hardly the same as 'A lady hardly kick my arse."  :-)

But I digress.  :-0   In your case, if you had your AI-computer, none
of that would have happened of course.

-- Bob.