On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:38:18 -0800, David Hale <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>> But in most cases, and in the case of the
>> icedivers in question,
>> we don't know ANYTHING about what happened, what
>> went wrong, or what
>> they did!  As such, there is practically NOTHING to
>> go on rather than
>> either calling them "dumb asses" by inferences, or
>> bestow them the
>> "obligatory cliches" by choice.
>>
>> Had there been FACTS about dive accidents to
>> DISCUSS, as in many
>> actual CASES that had been analyzed and discussed,
>> that would have
>> been a seahorse of a different color!
>
>Since we don't have any facts, we could always go over
>to techdiver and wail on them for being deep air
>strokes!

Until some Sons of Bitches there point out while they
don't know anything about the icedivers, they do know
that the lake in which they died had a max depth of
about 30 ft as was the lake in which I got ice-certified.
:-))

But I have to agree with you that techdiver is a great
forum for raking the coals over strokes, either with
no fact or with imagined facts.  :-)))


>> As it were, his $0.02 USD worth is worth ALMOST $.04
>> AUD, but not
>> less than $0.02 USD!   :-)))
>
>Actually $0.0338 AUD given the recent weakening of the
>greenback. At that rate, Mike Ball may have to
>increase his surcharge for US divers! :D

Urrrr ... the last I heard, Mike Ball sold his operation
to some Japanese, so the correct "attribution" would have
to be "sum Japon nis-son ofar beach using Mike Ball name"
may have to increase the surcharge.  :-)

-- Bob.