Fundies kicked my a$$

[MXGratefulDiver]

Yeah, I've only been posting here for 4 years, I guess I should be worried.

Speaking of credibility, I'm just a bit curious how someone can rack up 2,500 dives in 10 years in cold water and also hold down a day job and also make 23,000+ posts . Pretty impressive, I'll say.

Thank you ... but to be completely accurate, I've racked up nearly 2,800 dives ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

He works in a water treatment plant? Only has to step out back for a dive?

(kidding bob)

Actually I do in a sense ... I have a great dive site five minutes from my home ... and a half dozen more within easy driving distance from either home or work.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[JeffG]

I stand corrected ... I was basing my information on something I had heard from Wayne himself ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

He always felt persecuted.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

He always felt persecuted.

... in some threads I felt he was too. Wayne has his own way of looking at things ... and in many ways I agreed with him. If he had a fault, it was bringing up the subject too often ... and sometimes in threads where it probably wasn't appropriate.

Personally, I miss the dude ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Mossman]

Thank you ... but to be completely accurate, I've racked up nearly 2,800 dives ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Even more impressive, but I'm still a bit skeptical. 2800 dives over 10 years is 280 dives a year. That's about par for full-time warm-water third-world DMs that are diving daily, but extremely impressive for a cold-water diver.

Just curious, do you count pool "dives" as part of the 2,800 or are they all "real" (i.e. open water) dives? If so, I'm damn damn impressed (that's a double damn in case any Bible thumpers are watching

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Believe me, Bob dives as much as he says he does. And his post count is obvious. What's amazing is that he keeps a job . . .

I multi-task well ... and I don't sleep much ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Even more impressive, but I'm still a bit skeptical. 2800 dives over 10 years is 280 dives a year. That's about par for full-time warm-water third-world DMs that are diving daily, but extremely impressive for a cold-water diver.

Just curious, do you count pool "dives" as part of the 2,800 or are they all "real" (i.e. open water) dives? If so, I'm damn damn impressed (that's a double damn in case any Bible thumpers are watching

I do not count pool dives ... nor OW class checkout dives ... nor scenario dives for Rescue classes. I do count most other dives for classes I teach, since those are real dives ... but probably about 80% of my dives do not involve classes. I just like to dive ... and have the opportunity to do so pretty much whenever I want to. Most weeks I'm in the water at least four times on the week-end, and a couple times during the week ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[D_B]

It's not that Mossman has different opinion from most people in this thread, it's the way he expresses it that rankles

... maybe he's not trolling , it just comes out that way

 

[huwporter]

It's not that Mossman has different opinion from most people in this thread, it's the way he expresses it that rankles

... maybe he's not trolling , it just comes out that way

You can take the poster out of rec.scuba, but you can't take rec.scuba out of the poster.

Cheers,
Huw

 

[Mossman]

I do not count pool dives ... nor OW class checkout dives ... nor scenario dives for Rescue classes. I do count most other dives for classes I teach, since those are real dives ... but probably about 80% of my dives do not involve classes. I just like to dive ... and have the opportunity to do so pretty much whenever I want to. Most weeks I'm in the water at least four times on the week-end, and a couple times during the week ...

OK then, call me really impressed (and a bit jealous). I used to do 60-80 a year before I became a total wuss.

It's not that Mossman has different opinion from most people in this thread, it's the way he expresses it that rankles

... maybe he's not trolling , it just comes out that way

Perhaps I just need more smileys, then I'll come across as the nice guy I really am!