I understand how you feel and can rationalize my own, some would say hypocritical actions, of diving other wrecks where lives were lost, by a specific lack of any personal tie to those calamities.
I thought i explained that pretty well with with the reference to Chuuk.
Double standard? Yes .... probably. I personally would not feel right on the Fitz, for the reasons stated earlier and understand how the lost maritimers families feel, because i know some of them and respect their desires. In the same position, i think you would too.
Right or wrong, some of them would be really bothered if the Fitz became another "destination wreck" like the Doria. I believe time has a lot to do with it as someone stated earlier. Less than thirty years later most of the Mothers & Fathers are gone but wives & children are still here. These people lived that day and remember it like it was yesterday as any of us would with losing a loved one. You can't say that about the Doria or most of the wrecks you mentioned where at best the childrens, children may remember something about great-great grandpappy or mammy going down on the Doria.
Since the Fitz is "slightly" more technical than the Doria it is probably not in any danger of becoming a destination like the Doria. And personally i don't feel i have the right to tell you, you can't dive her. But i believe the people alive today, who lost family members on her do have that right. In time the pain of the lose will fade with the new generations & i'm sure objections will basically cease to exist.
Well, that was a lot of typing for something i know is not going to change your mind. I respect your viewpoint too. Just don't agree with it when it comes to the Fitz. To quote Stuart Smalley "and thats okay."
If it's not okay i say we meet at high noon on the grinder & settle this with pugle sticks like a normal pair of hard-headed Jarheads. What do you say?
:shiner:
By the way, have you figured out your bottom mix yet?
I thought i explained that pretty well with with the reference to Chuuk.
Double standard? Yes .... probably. I personally would not feel right on the Fitz, for the reasons stated earlier and understand how the lost maritimers families feel, because i know some of them and respect their desires. In the same position, i think you would too.
Right or wrong, some of them would be really bothered if the Fitz became another "destination wreck" like the Doria. I believe time has a lot to do with it as someone stated earlier. Less than thirty years later most of the Mothers & Fathers are gone but wives & children are still here. These people lived that day and remember it like it was yesterday as any of us would with losing a loved one. You can't say that about the Doria or most of the wrecks you mentioned where at best the childrens, children may remember something about great-great grandpappy or mammy going down on the Doria.
Since the Fitz is "slightly" more technical than the Doria it is probably not in any danger of becoming a destination like the Doria. And personally i don't feel i have the right to tell you, you can't dive her. But i believe the people alive today, who lost family members on her do have that right. In time the pain of the lose will fade with the new generations & i'm sure objections will basically cease to exist.
Well, that was a lot of typing for something i know is not going to change your mind. I respect your viewpoint too. Just don't agree with it when it comes to the Fitz. To quote Stuart Smalley "and thats okay."
If it's not okay i say we meet at high noon on the grinder & settle this with pugle sticks like a normal pair of hard-headed Jarheads. What do you say?
:shiner:By the way, have you figured out your bottom mix yet?
