On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:41:11 -0500, Lee Bell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Michael Doelle wrote:
>
>> Come on now, bouncing for a few seconds doesn't count.

Hey, Mika.  You ARE really full of bollox lately!  It can kill you
just as easily as any dive YOU do, if you don't know what you're doing!

>
>I wonder if that's the official GUE position?

What difference does that make?  Entirely IRRELEVANT.


>If a few seconds don't count,
>how long before it does count and how deep is deep?  As I recall, the GUE
>standard is an END no greater than 100 fsw.

Really?


>I don't a time factor being mentioned.

Time of exposure IS the essence.  GUE or no GUE, if the time factor
is not mentioned, then they are just the old "stroke".  :-))


>Regardless, I seem to recall a few dives in Cozumel that were
>deeper than 100 feet, for longer than just a few seconds, on air.  It could
>have been narcosis, but I also seem to recall seeing you and Andy on some of
>those dives.
>
>Lee

Andy is a "stroke" by DIR definition.  Mika is a "stroke" by DIR
definition.  Now Mika is a GUE "stroke", by MY definition.  :-)))))

Ye pedants, learn the RELEVANT facts, and THINK for thyself!

That's Feeesh's sermon for the day.

-- Bob.