Ayisha
Contributor
I didn't see the video, so I can't comment on that, however, if a (commercial) video later gets made private, do you still get the ad revenue it generated? How about all the clicks on all of Alec's other videos by people originally drawn to the controversial video?
Alec has seen many long hose setups and used to make jokes about a long hose being wrapped around the neck. In fact, in a GUE seminar held at Alec's shop Scuba 2000 in 2013, the first public invitation read something to the effect of "Why do tech divers wrap their long hose around their neck?" I inquired with him and the person who organized it, who actually wrote the ad, and it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. The invitation was later changed to remove any references to the long hose.
When I first contemplated going to a long hose, Alec said that he spent all these decades training people to have the octopus donated to them, and not go for the reg in the mouth, and divers who weren't familiar might have their reg taken/demanded from their mouth. Of course, many of us practice Primary Donate, not Primary Take.
His main concern with donating the primary was that both divers would have their regs out of their mouth at the same time.
Having known Alec for about 19 years and having been embroiled in contentious threads on his long gone The Diving Board forum, he is willing to push the envelope as far as possible to generate interest and publicity. When he gets carried away and pushes it too far, he will make amends.
Alec has seen many long hose setups and used to make jokes about a long hose being wrapped around the neck. In fact, in a GUE seminar held at Alec's shop Scuba 2000 in 2013, the first public invitation read something to the effect of "Why do tech divers wrap their long hose around their neck?" I inquired with him and the person who organized it, who actually wrote the ad, and it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. The invitation was later changed to remove any references to the long hose.
When I first contemplated going to a long hose, Alec said that he spent all these decades training people to have the octopus donated to them, and not go for the reg in the mouth, and divers who weren't familiar might have their reg taken/demanded from their mouth. Of course, many of us practice Primary Donate, not Primary Take.
His main concern with donating the primary was that both divers would have their regs out of their mouth at the same time.
Having known Alec for about 19 years and having been embroiled in contentious threads on his long gone The Diving Board forum, he is willing to push the envelope as far as possible to generate interest and publicity. When he gets carried away and pushes it too far, he will make amends.
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