victorzamora
Contributor
Hey guys,
I'd like your help writing a letter. I ran across a dive professional I know at Vortex Springs. He led a group of 8 or 9 people that CLEARLY have no business being in an open water environment, with 4 lights between them, to the Piano Room. I know it's common, but it's ridiculous and "it happens all the time" is NOT a good excuse for it. It's dangerous, irresponsible, and could lead to deaths. Anyway, I'm trying to draft a letter or e-mail or FaceBook message that contains appropriate wording to not sound accusatory and like a pretentious prick, but clearly concerned, stern, and getting the message across. I think digitally might send the best message as I'm half-planning on including a few videos, including "Deceptively Easy Way to Die" but I need help drafting it. I'll compile a composite of whatever is posted on here and send it to him.
If you guys need a video proving their "quality" of diver, I'll be glad to post it....but it's a "shaming" video through and through, and those typically get a lot of off-topic rants and tangents. Needless to say, all of them were bouncing along the bottom in nothing but flutter kicks, stirring up every bit of silt and debris the whole way in and out. The whole thing started off with one of those divers falling to the bottom (maybe 20# overweighted) so hard it jarred one of his two calf-mounted BFKs out of its plastic clip-in sheath, who then grabbed his LPI and rode that rocket to the surface. I know for a fact he went into the cave as I recovered his knife and returned it to him in the middle of a story about how great the cave was and how he didn't understand why it looked worse on the way out.
Any help would be appreciated,
Victor
I'd like your help writing a letter. I ran across a dive professional I know at Vortex Springs. He led a group of 8 or 9 people that CLEARLY have no business being in an open water environment, with 4 lights between them, to the Piano Room. I know it's common, but it's ridiculous and "it happens all the time" is NOT a good excuse for it. It's dangerous, irresponsible, and could lead to deaths. Anyway, I'm trying to draft a letter or e-mail or FaceBook message that contains appropriate wording to not sound accusatory and like a pretentious prick, but clearly concerned, stern, and getting the message across. I think digitally might send the best message as I'm half-planning on including a few videos, including "Deceptively Easy Way to Die" but I need help drafting it. I'll compile a composite of whatever is posted on here and send it to him.
If you guys need a video proving their "quality" of diver, I'll be glad to post it....but it's a "shaming" video through and through, and those typically get a lot of off-topic rants and tangents. Needless to say, all of them were bouncing along the bottom in nothing but flutter kicks, stirring up every bit of silt and debris the whole way in and out. The whole thing started off with one of those divers falling to the bottom (maybe 20# overweighted) so hard it jarred one of his two calf-mounted BFKs out of its plastic clip-in sheath, who then grabbed his LPI and rode that rocket to the surface. I know for a fact he went into the cave as I recovered his knife and returned it to him in the middle of a story about how great the cave was and how he didn't understand why it looked worse on the way out.
Any help would be appreciated,
Victor