On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:37:50 -0400, Michael Doelle
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>EPN surmised:
>
>>>"Pretty" Florida DMs? Hehehe. Never met one. The body builders don't
hang
>>out on dive boats. At least not in FLA.
>>Then, you don't know as much about Florida diving as you think!  :-)

>>>I swear it's the absolute truth.  I asked because there was a
>swift current down there that day.  Well, he GUESSED wrong about
>which end the boat was tied!<
>
>Anecdotal evidence noted. And you have done how many dives in FLA?

About 10, that's about 8 too many.  :-)

>
>>Now you know ONE of the reasons why I would never go back to
>dive in the Keys again.  :-)<
>
>Based on one experience? Or maybe three?

Two in each Key, Upper, Middle, and Lower.


>Let's see, if someone else posts
>such a thing based on "one experience" in any other place, what is your
>usual response? You blast him for being an ignorant kakerlak. And rightly
>so.

Wrong, MtW breath!

I already had enough experience to know a POS when I see it.  :-)
So, if you have stepped on 6 pieces of those, out of 6, it doesn't
take a Nobel calibre statistician to draw the informed conclusion,
for HIMSELF!


>>>In Fla they're usually guys who work for tips or free dives on weekends.
>>>Some of them even have teeth.
>>Don't recall meeting those.  They must be on the Gulf side.
>
>The ones with the teeth or the ones working for tips and dives? If you
>never met those in the Keys, you don't actually know many FLA DMs. And
>there's comparatively little diving on the gulf side.
>
>>They not only don't dive, I have told the story more than once about
>the DM in Key Largo, who told some 20-odd divers on one boat to
>pop their heads to the surface every 15 minutes on a 60-minute dive
>on Molasses Reef, so that HE can keep track of where they are.  I
>have yet to encounter a better true story for a STOOPID Florida DM.<
>
>Well,  they don't actually try to keep track of anyone. They just want the
>imbeciles to check where the boat is. Most of them need to do just that,
>they could never find it again after swimming away from it for 2 minutes.
>Sound advice for 97% of the divers they get down there.
>
>Nobody I've dived with down there has ever followed that advice. We just
>find the boat, and that's it.
>
>M

I forgot to mention that harebrain fussed at me because I got on
the boat about 1 minute late -- because I was timing the dive
according to my COMPUTER, which stops the clock above 7 fsw,
the times I pooped to the surface, from 30 fsw, in SLOW,
CONTROLLED ascent of course!   That accounted for at least 1
minute of the time that DM forgot.  ;-)

ElPezNeuvo.