Sheck Exley • Remembering a Legend

[Curt Bowen]

Sheck Exley • Remembering a Legend • ADVANCED DIVER MAGAZINE • By Jim Bowden

Sheck Exley • Remembering a Legend
Text by Jim Bowden

In this egomaniacal discipline of cave diving, it was refreshing to see a man accomplishing the impossible without the fanfare and entourage that we so often see in much lesser endeavors. Perhaps the bond we formed as dive partners was because so much of our diving history had been solo.

 

[Rhone Man]

Good article, but the quote attributed to Mohandas K. Gandi is actually from Harry S. Truman.

 

[Curt Bowen]

Good article, but the quote attributed to Mohandas K. Gandi is actually from Harry S. Truman.

Looks like you are both wrong???


"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - National Edition

 

[Rhone Man]

Agh! Nothing worse than being "wrong" when correcting someone!

 

[Moonglow]

Exley's Razor article - SubAqua UK