Posted by seahunt on December 04, 2001 at 14:44:29:
In Reply to: Touchy, touchy.... posted by msblucow on December 04, 2001 at 12:40:29:
Wait a minute there.
Who is pushing the solo diving? I post that almost all my dives are
solo, but I never push it. We all agree, you have to discover that for
yourself.
Serpent is complaining because we ADMIT we solo or backlplate dive
and is willing to be quite insulting if we admit we do.
Nobody except the DIR folks have glorified any kind of diving. Chris'
backplate page was posted in response to attacks. He never mentioned
backplate diving, Michael did.
>So tell me, what about that ISN'T safer than solo diving?
This is an old arguement.
First, I like to dive places that few people can safely dive.
Second, Many times when I dive, there is no buddy available of even
moderate experience, if at all.
Third, I hunt. A buddy interferes with that in a major way and even
when hunting, I often enjoy diving alone.
You are welcome to dive anyway you feel you want to and should,
but these are issues you must answer before you can critisize a
diver for going solo.
Besides there is a problem with what you are saying about the
albatross, because you get in the old bind of who are newbies
supposed to dive with. I like to take down complete newbies. Am
I safer with them or no buddy?
What it comes down to, is in general, you can't prove that I am
safer with a buddy. I've almost been killed by my buddy on three
occasions and I don't buddy much... and they were both
experienced.
When I post about my diving, I don't expect to get criticized and
insulted because I don't dive the way somebody else feels I should.
I am an accomplished diver. His post was not about solo diving. It
was baout insulting people. I very rarely insult people and I don't
expect people to casually insult me. Do you feel that I should be
insulted for how I dive? You may call me touchy, but I have gotten
mighty sick of the insults that are not acceptable in conversation,
but that some people seem to feel are OK on the internet. You should
be too.
Enjoy the diving, seahunt