Let's see if I have this right...
(I probably don't)
In the end, this turns out to be about a photo CAPTION that's incorrect?
Sheesh.
I don't see why MHK felt he had to apologize to *anyone* for the fuss - HE didn't post the photo with that deceptive caption on the GUE site (it's down now, BTW). Ok, it's an old photo. It should have come with an "after" photo and a better caption. Seems to me that MHK explained its existence in a reasonable manner (goodness knows the question of its age is easy enough to check on), so why wasn't that the end of it?
There's two types of "Dive Nazi" behaviour here. Neither is beneficial IMHNO (N="newbie"). I don't know which is worse - the foaming-at-the-mouth "DIR" fanatic or the foaming-at-the-mouth "anti-DIR" fanatic. Both groups are acting like they've gargled with shampoo.
I found out this weekend that the LDS in town here won't let me train with them or dive with them with my current regulator setup. Why? Because with the fins, DG/BT, the long hose and the fact I'm planning to order a BP/wings soon the dive shop owner thinks I've been influenced too much by "a bunch of Dive Nazis down in <insert name of popular Ontario dive location here>". (??? I don't have a clue who he's talking about).
The official excuse is that "the long hose is dangerous because it could strangle me".
Great. Foaming fanatacism on both sides is poised to WIPE OUT most of my dive season and (almost) ALL of the progress I was planning to make this summer. I don't have a lot of instructional choice up here. I'll have to change the hoses away from something I find to be perfectly functional or dive elsewhere all because SOME IDIOTS OUT THERE (Walter, can I say that if I'm not specific? It doesn't look like a personal attack to me. - WWW) are putting people's backs up to the point where they are willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Thanks a <insert your own expletive here> lot. You'd think we'd have learned from recent world events how damaging fanatacism can be to the perception of any "way"; religion OR diving.
cat
(now preparing for a shallow summer - thanks for letting me rant)
(I probably don't)
In the end, this turns out to be about a photo CAPTION that's incorrect?
Sheesh.
I don't see why MHK felt he had to apologize to *anyone* for the fuss - HE didn't post the photo with that deceptive caption on the GUE site (it's down now, BTW). Ok, it's an old photo. It should have come with an "after" photo and a better caption. Seems to me that MHK explained its existence in a reasonable manner (goodness knows the question of its age is easy enough to check on), so why wasn't that the end of it?
There's two types of "Dive Nazi" behaviour here. Neither is beneficial IMHNO (N="newbie"). I don't know which is worse - the foaming-at-the-mouth "DIR" fanatic or the foaming-at-the-mouth "anti-DIR" fanatic. Both groups are acting like they've gargled with shampoo.
I found out this weekend that the LDS in town here won't let me train with them or dive with them with my current regulator setup. Why? Because with the fins, DG/BT, the long hose and the fact I'm planning to order a BP/wings soon the dive shop owner thinks I've been influenced too much by "a bunch of Dive Nazis down in <insert name of popular Ontario dive location here>". (??? I don't have a clue who he's talking about).
The official excuse is that "the long hose is dangerous because it could strangle me".
Great. Foaming fanatacism on both sides is poised to WIPE OUT most of my dive season and (almost) ALL of the progress I was planning to make this summer. I don't have a lot of instructional choice up here. I'll have to change the hoses away from something I find to be perfectly functional or dive elsewhere all because SOME IDIOTS OUT THERE (Walter, can I say that if I'm not specific? It doesn't look like a personal attack to me. - WWW) are putting people's backs up to the point where they are willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Thanks a <insert your own expletive here> lot. You'd think we'd have learned from recent world events how damaging fanatacism can be to the perception of any "way"; religion OR diving.
cat
(now preparing for a shallow summer - thanks for letting me rant)