Charlie59:So, then, your argument is to gain weight and not worry about fitness, cause your sloppy diving is the real culprit. No one dies underwater of heart attack. Don't be concerned about health, just buy good equipment?
Wow, you've convinced me. Pass the doughnuts and ice cream.
I think though doth protest too much.
I never said any such thing and I'm pretty sure that you know that. BTW, while I did mention dive skills, I never said a word about equipment. In short, what I said was that there is no data indicating that obesity is the number one cause of dive accidents and that DAN never said there was.
As you can see from the actual DAN article, that is a true statement. Either you misrepresented the undercurrent article or undercurrent misrepresented the DAN article. From your responses in this thread I find one as easy to believe as the other.
The lesson here is not that you should go crazy on the doughnuts or that you should drink or smoke or cross the street without looking both ways first. The lesson here is that if you want to know what DAN says, you should go to DAN. Then you should carefully read for content in context and if you have trouble understanding what you are reading, you should ask for help before arguing your mistaken point with too much zeal.