CDNN --- What gives with these guys?

[almitywife]

you're attracted to anything with midgets...

:no

i think the correct term is vertically challanged

 

[Kim]

:no

i think the correct terms is vertically challanged

Or horizontally locked?

 

[bill22]

And when there aren't any, they make them up.

So... just curious (I also googled this site after reading this thread) on what basis do you think they make up these stories?

 

[deco_martini]

So... just curious (I also googled this site after reading this thread) on what basis do you think they make up these stories?

The guys at underwatertimes guys found a few completely fabricated stories there. They started a thread with a bounty for verifying that the authors of the fabricated stories existed. They found of course the names used on the site to publish original stories under are fake too.

Don't get me wrong, the media has been reporting scuba accidents more often since a few high profile cases. These guy(s) can just hit news.google.com every morning and copy and paste the stories they find (you'll notice many of the latest stories are attributed at the end of the story to the news agency they were stolen from). Many stories they post are real and are just copied and pasted from real news sources.

Its not just fabricated stories either, its deceptive ones. One of their anti-shark feeding stories was about how a man had died on a shark dive. He was not however killed by sharks or any such thing. They make quite a few of these sin-of-omission stories and I think someone spotted one the other day where they tried to make it look like that liveaboard that was in the press for bad air had another accident.

 

[bill22]

The guys at underwatertimes guys found a few completely fabricated stories there. They started a thread with a bounty for verifying that the authors of the fabricated stories existed. They found of course the names used on the site to publish original stories under are fake too.

Don't get me wrong, the media has been reporting scuba accidents more often since a few high profile cases. These guy(s) can just hit news.google.com every morning and copy and paste the stories they find (you'll notice many of the latest stories are attributed at the end of the story to the news agency they were stolen from). Many stories they post are real and are just copied and pasted from real news sources.

Its not just fabricated stories either, its deceptive ones. One of their anti-shark feeding stories was about how a man had died on a shark dive. He was not however killed by sharks or any such thing. They make quite a few of these sin-of-omission stories and I think someone spotted one the other day where they tried to make it look like that liveaboard that was in the press for bad air had another accident.

That's very bad I started looking at their site more in-depth after my post and although some of the stories seemed legit, some seemed really unbelievable.

Thanks for answering my question.

 

[Aussie scuba chick]

RUBBISH....GOTTA BE FROM OZ! Well said....who actually pays them to advertise their businesses?

Whaddya mean, gotta be from Oz?!!

 

[almitywife]

Whaddya mean, gotta be from Oz?!!

maybe because we call a spade a bloody shovel

 

[Babydamulag]

I just like your expressions....one day before I leave this earth we will go to OZ and check it out.

 

[Kim]

one day before I leave this earth we will go to OZ and check it out.

Just watch out for the wizard.....

 

[diverdwn71]

Hey now, Toto and the ruby slippers are ours! Go find your own!