On Thu, 16 May 2002 17:12:26 +0800, Robert Delfs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>My worry is that the low-viz golf-ball recovery diving specialty might
>inspire the PADI authorities here in Hong Kong, where untreated sewage
>generated by a population of more than 10 million persons (on both
>sides of the border with China) enters a fairly restricted estuarial
>delta of bays.
>
>Something along the lines of a "turd classification specialty."

You mean PADI doesn't have such a course YET?   Sheesh, there goes
all my training of "turd classification" on internet posters in
preparation for that Specialty Patch!

>Robert Delfs (who lives but doesn't dive in HK)

Why hadn't you posted this factoid 9 months ago?  We could have had
a mini-Symposium on "turd classfication" while I was in HK.  :-)

-- Bob.