GUE Expedition to Atlantis

[deco_martini]

Hey, I wouldn't give a cr@p if someone wanted me to search for Snoopy's lost doghouse especially if they were sponsoring me on an expedition and paying my expenses to dive...

Doing riskier 300 foot dives because some crazy person believes a crazy person from a century ago (whose prophecies never came true btw), is well.... crazy.

James Cameron (director of avatar) goes around using submersibles and ROVs to look for all sorts of real things underwater. Like shipwrecks or undersea vents. Odyssey Marine goes around the world looking for real shipwrecks to salvage for gold/silver/artifacts. They use submersibles and ROVs.

Real deep sea explorers use real exploration equipment.

A bunch of divers, from the branch of diving most based on scientific accuracy and measurement, doing 300 foot dives to look for a lost unicorn in the Bahamas, is funny. Very funny.

Its possibly harder for a layman (or a new age hippie) to understand why its funny. The highest elevation in the Bahamas is 200 feet. If you know how the Bahamas formed (which, can easily be found with google), the very idea of mountain switchback trails being sunken over time off Bimini....... is as funny as the idea that a picture of a pond taken while flying over Idaho is a picture of long lost inland sea.

 

[deco_martini]

This is what they are going to "investigate". Which is funny, since there is a diver in the photo already. The photo is attributed to GUE instructor David Rhea.

So are the GUE guys believers or do they just not mind fleecing crazy people to take a dive junket? Because if its the latter.... well, I'm cool with that. If the GUE guys are believers, then I'm definitely going UTD.

Van Auken expects to spend between $20,000 and $50,000, securing a large mothership as the mission base for dives using rebreathers

At what point does the amount of money the kooks are paying to fund this go from being funny to obscene?

 

[divad]

But what about Funkytown?

 

[deco_martini]

But what about Funkytown?

The Funkytown trip is delayed until they can find a crazy person who believes the song was about a literal town to fund the trip.

If they haven't found one of those by the end of 2010, they'll just go to Disco night at a local club instead.

 

[divad]

You're saying there is no Funkytown. You are an idiot.

 

[azchipka]

cigarette smoker

Which by GUE standards makes it impossible for me to ever earn a GUE certification or be a GUE instructor.

Its a completely insane and elitist requirement that forces the personal views of GUE on its students and instructors.

If someone can meet all the physical requirements then it shouldnt matter what I do in my free time.

Now by GUE standards I can be a ragging drunk or smoke crack and that would be fin but nope no cigarettes!

 

[deco_martini]

Now by GUE standards I can be a ragging drunk or smoke crack and that would be fin but nope no cigarettes!

Apparently, clinically insane is also okay now. No smokers plz.

 

[azchipka]

You're saying there is no Funkytown. You are an idiot.

I discovered funky town awhile ago I just need someone to give me like 30 grand so I can go explore it and bring back all the details. Its in the b-triangle so even though I will bring back evidence of it I will not be able to share its location with anyone who was not on the trip.

BTW anyone who is willing to go on this trip once its sponsored and make statements about funky town will get a split of the 30k which we will spend at a Bar named funky town.

 

[StreetDoctor]

Which by GUE standards makes it impossible for me to ever earn a GUE certification or be a GUE instructor.

Its a completely insane and elitist requirement that forces the personal views of GUE on its students and instructors.

If someone can meet all the physical requirements then it shouldnt matter what I do in my free time.

Now by GUE standards I can be a ragging drunk or smoke crack and that would be fin but nope no cigarettes!

One of the great things about the country we live in is you have the choice to NOT join or recieve their training then. You're not supposed to do drugs either. If you don't like it then don't become a member. Believe it or not smoking is bad for you and diving and fitness are pretty closely related. I think it's hilarious this thread is bashing GUE and you're complaining you can't join Someone sure is butt hurt.

 

[StreetDoctor]

Which by GUE standards makes it impossible for me to ever earn a GUE certification or be a GUE instructor.

Its a completely insane and elitist requirement that forces the personal views of GUE on its students and instructors.

If someone can meet all the physical requirements then it shouldnt matter what I do in my free time.

Now by GUE standards I can be a ragging drunk or smoke crack and that would be fin but nope no cigarettes!

BTW:

At least GUE has a working website, the one in your signature is nothing but broken links.