----- Original Message -----
From: "David Strike" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Octo Necklace


> On  Saturday, July 27, 2002 3:59 PM, Lee Bell wrote:
>
> > David Strike wrote:
> > > The problems that you raise are theoretical rather than actual.  :-)
>
> > All problems are theoretical until they're real.  8^)  I started with
the
> > statement that these are unlikely events, but there's little point in
> > tempting fate when it's actually easier to avoid the risks entirely.
>
> Mate!  In diving you can only reduce the risks.  The only way to avoid
them
> completely is not to get wet!  :-)
But then that is true of everything else as well.  The only way to avoid
risk completely is to die. Even there, the religious would say there was a
risk of which direction you might go. Risk is not avoidable, it can only be
reduced.

CH