Hopefully - in 20 years that fad will be forgotten.
H2Andy:i predict this shall not be so in 20 years
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H2Andy
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Tom Smedley:
i'm sorry, but nothing that gets back to the basics as well as DIR does can be called
a fad, in my book
but hey, we disagree... let us disagree amicably
molksmith
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I am a yank living in vienna and on a lucky day you can still see hans and lotte
walking around the alt-stadt (old city), shows you how good diving is for ones health. He is well into his 80's.
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walking around the alt-stadt (old city), shows you how good diving is for ones health. He is well into his 80's.
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deadend
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Nobody mentioned Greg Lougainis!
molksmith
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While I am certainly putting anyone down that does olympic diving. Certainly a great sport, I think the idea was people somehow involved with diving outside of a pool..
ie...Scuba, Freedivers, etc..
ie...Scuba, Freedivers, etc..
deadend
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Uh-that was a joke. Do Austrians not participate in jokery?
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H2Andy
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i fear anyone who says "participate in jokery" in Australia would probably get
the crap beaten out of him...
just a guess...
the crap beaten out of him...
just a guess...
Doppler:
And to this we should add Bill Main, Bill Gavin and all the rest of that group. We shouldn't leave out Greg Flanagan either.
Someone indicated earlier in the thread that they didn't think cave divers changed diving for them but that's where many inovations came from...bc's, manifolds, alternate or backup regs, backplates (as we use today) and who knows what else. the NSS cave diving manual has a neat chapter written by Sheck Exley detailing the development of lots of the equipment we use today. If I remember right he gave credit for the first alternate second stage to Hal Watts.
Vienna is not in AustraliaH2Andy:i fear anyone who says "participate in jokery" in Australia would probably get
the crap beaten out of him...
just a guess...
Um, Er, I think the country he is from is Austria. But then again, Australia is close inspellnig....LOL... :11:
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