David Strike wrote:

> > We wouldn't today.

> I don't recall doing it then!

That's probably why you didn't say you had.  Guess that's one experience I
have that you lack.  Doesn't quite even the score, but it's a step in that
direction.

> >One might just as well ask why would someone take the
> > chance of breathing off a gas regulator meant for something entirely
> > different or breathe from a bag of pure oxygen just waiting to kill you
> > for ascending to depths many would free dive to.

> I've never been up that high.

Hmmm, there does appear to be something wrong with my sentence, doesn't
there.  Oh well.  If you can't figure out what I meant, it's not worth doing
over.

> > Because we had not yet learned
> > the danger in what we were doing or we knew the danger but did not yet
> > know a better way to do what we felt we wanted or needed to do.

> There were sufficient books and magazines around for those who were bitten
> by the bug and intended to dive more than once in a blue moon to at least
> teach themselves properly.

Perhaps you learned all you know from books, but most of us learned by
experience.  Most often that experience was personal and unpleasant, making
it much more certain to teach a lesson to those who survived.  Personally,
I've always considered experience to be a pretty good teacher.  I thought
you did too.  Isn't that what you meant when you mentioned your commercial
and military training in a previous thread?  Seems I recall something like
your taking more precautions because you had seen more CFs.  I must be
wrong.

> > Why would anyone dive in waters where fish that are so well camouflaged
> > you can't see them, small clear jellyfish and very pretty small
octopuses can
> > all kill you?
>
> Doesn't sound like anywhere I know.

Better get your books out.  8^)

Lee