Becoming a snob

[Mo2vation]

Dung recognition doesn't necessarily mean one is a snob.

Confidence isn't being a snob, either. Yo're reaching a point where you recognize the stuff you've PROVEN in the water isn't always what is being professed out there - by some agencies, publications, instructors and (gad...) posters on SB.

Big-T probably nailed the motivation for the "Pro Diving" tip you mentioned... but to you it was a big "duh..." I think that's pretty swell.

Continue to prove the stuff you're being told, and the stuff you're reading, and apply the fecal filter.

K

 

[Rick Inman]

I'm above replying to this post... :dry:

Actually, I find that the better the diver, the LESS he/she is apt to try to come off superior. Even on this board. Although I can see how a person's bottom lining, no nonsense responses might incorrectly be interpreted as trying to appearer superior (but I won't mention WW's name...).

 

[mempilot]

(but I won't mention WW's name...).

LOL, I just gave WW crap the other day for his response to a new divers "dumb" question. I got a laugh, but the new kid on the block probably took up badmitten. I feel sorry for the guy asking the question, because this is a place to learn. But, I question the quality of his OW instructor. I know WW wasn't being a snob, but just being WW.

 

[pipedope]

a individual with no discerning tastes.

I kinda feel sorry for the folks that never develop any ability to define excellence. You know, the ones that love every film they see, detect no difference between craft-brewed beers and swill, consider rototilling an 'acceptable' finning technique...

I am sorry but fins are not used in 'proper' rototilling.

Lead boots are great but any hard sole booties will work.

Weighting is important. In calm conditions doing light work take the neutral weight and add 25 pounds. For jetting or if there is much current add 50 pounds.

Running a jet nozzle and a dredge or air lift at the same time is really excellent for getting rid of that pesky vis.

This should be done surface supplied so that you can keep the mess going and not need to stop to go get more gas.

 

[Walter]

Big-t-2538,

You and Rodales are both wrong.

They said:

"our bodies create lift, almost like an airplane's wing."

You said:

"Rodale's is technically correct"

The principles involved are not remotely similar.

Rick Inman,

Running the risk of sounding like a "snob," did you mean "bottom line"?

 

[Snowbear]

Where's that coke alert

 

[d33ps1x]

Nope that didn't work...

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Nope ... you're not a snob until you can walk up to a stranger and, with a perfectly straight face, tell them they're an accident waiting to happen ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Ron Brandt]

I'm above replying to this post... :dry:

Actually, I find that the better the diver, the LESS he/she is apt to try to come off superior. Even on this board. Although I can see how a person's bottom lining, no nonsense responses might incorrectly be interpreted as trying to appearer superior .

I tend to agree.

Interesting though when I talk to divers ALOT have a big ego.Somewhere in the conversation I mention I instruct. The ego seems to go away and they now ask me lots of questions.....

Ron

 

[archman]

I would have to say that about half the divers I've met fall into the "snob" category. The most common denomination are the folks who have a rescue c-card, followed next by brand new OW instructors, and then it's a split between the aow divers and people with drysuits. Every tech diver I've met has been a snob. The same follows for the AAUS "scientific divers" with a single exception. For some reason all the NOAA divers have not been snobs. Southern divers seem to be distinctly less snobbish than Californians and New Englanders, while Floridians are a mixed bag.

I don't know why I'm surrounded by snobs. Perhaps I'm just lucky.