I am on a Google binge ... like a child ... who had suddenly found a
jar of candy that had been excavated from an ancient tomb, and the
candy was sooooo old that it tastes new as most of us hadn't ever seen
it, or "memory fails", a common malady as Mike Wallace pointed out. :-)

For those humorless and clueless about what a FUN Scuba Diving Discussion
List WAS (Scuba-L), in favor of a comatose/near-moribund list (Scuba-L
NOW) that registered a TOTAL of 40 posts this entire YEAR (including
3 postings of Guidelines by the Fuhrer), I am delighted to inform you
that there will not be a Fuhrer (or his disciples) HERE to censor or
gas me, so you'll just have to:  (a) use your Fat DELETE Finger more
often, (b) learn to use the archives web more so that there is no ROOM
for complain of too much mail to download (a complaint that is no
longer valid -- for YEARS), (c) grin and bear it, or (d) go back to
YOUR moribund Utopia and STFU here.  :-)

There'll be more ancient but "new" topics to come, as I find them
interesting/informative/suitable/whatever for this NEW readership
(Def:  "NEW":  anyone who hasn't been around the Scuba LISTSERV Lists
for 8 or more years).  There are many SERIOUS scuba topics to come under
this excavated series.  But let's start with a lightweight one.  :-)


Subject: U/W MBM Specialty (was ...???)
Date: 1994-04-20 07:42:00 PST


>>underwater decompression, what is the official NAUI/PADI/etc technique for
>>handling major bowel movements? How do you teach it? And where would you
           ^^^^^
Before you can have a PADI Specialty course on the matter :-0 , you need
to first DEFINE what is a "major" BM as opposed to a "minor" one.  Is it
measured by the mass (as in lbs or kg.) or moles (as in moles per volume
of air) or psi in "where the sun don't shine" ?

Then we need to answer a series of extremely pertinent questions, such as:

1.  Will NAUI/PADI/BASC/CMAS/etc. have the same standards for a major BM?

2.  If you can doo it in cold water, can you do it ANYWHERE?

3.  Do MBM Specialty divers have to wear special masks and regs?  How do
    you CLEAN such masks and regs?

4.  Will you be destined to solo dive forever if you wear that Specialty
    patch?  Will you buddy be required to remain close to you?

... Enquiring minds as well as David Waterman is anxiously waiting for other
questions to fill the list.

>  Uh-oh.  I think I see another PADI Specialty:tm: course on the horizon. I
>  wonder what they would charge for this one|

And you may ask WHERE PADI (Put Another $ In) might put the $ in this case?

-- Bob.   (NED, formerly "Garbage Collector" for his "Sanitation Engineer"
           Office, now takes on a new meaning for that Office.