On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:09:06 +0800, Bjorn Vang Jensen
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Reef Fish wrote:
>
>> I almost had this John Bennett confused with a Peter B. Bennett of
>> (former) DAN fame.  Are they related?
>
>Not that I know of - and if they were, they must have had some interesting
>arguments across the dinner table :-)
>

>John's specialty was deep air - really, really deep air. And deep in
>general. He is in the GBWR for deepest open-circuit dive - 308 meters/1010
>feet, in Puerto Galera. Don't know if that was on air, but he certainly
>broke 200 meters on air.

I learned that minutes ago, in
http://www.cdnn.info/safety/s040316/s040316.html

from rec.scuba!  :-)   If you read SELECTIVELY as I do (about 1% of
the posts, and 100% of the posts flaming me directly :-)), I do find
pieces of worthwhile reading in rec.scuba.


>>> I wish to live my life deliberately, to front the essential facts
>>> of life; to suck the very marrow of life and see if I can learn what
>>> it has to teach, and not, when it comes my time to die, discover that
>>> I have not lived.
>
>Truer words were never spoken.
>
>Bjorn

That I wouldn't know.  As may sayings were ATTRIBUTED to many known
authors, there are almost as many disputes of the attribution.  :-)
But there were ENOUGH (mis) or (correct) attributions of the saying
to Thoreau, I'll take the standard disclaimer, as I used to answer
Hugh who questioned my "anonymous" attribution to what you said.

   It's NOT who wrote it as much as the IDEA behind what
   was written that counts.

-- Bob.