Well when a mommy european and a daddy european love each other...Originally Posted by FW
That or a lot of loose european women
~Jeff
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Well when a mommy european and a daddy european love each other...
That or a lot of loose european women
~Jeff
No, my two brothers sent the article and the admonitions to stop diving. Not Females!
'You can say what you want about the South, but I ain't never heard of anyone wanting to retire to the North'
I went diving Sunday afternoon at a lake ("thermal cooling pond" to be exact) in the mountains of WV. When i get to the county line, there was a sign that said "no call service, police monitor CB Channel 9"
Good thing I had a CB in the truck, but I didnt have to use it.
I told the wife if I didnt call by a certain time to call a buddy that lived in the area so he could check on me. As I got finished up and left, I passed a gas station and thought "i should stop and use their pay phone" but I didn't. well, it was over an hour after that that I finally got cell service (WAY past the due time) but my wife knows that no news is good news, so she hadn't rung the alarm yet.
(Or maybe she had wishful thinking?come to think of it, she did just renew my life insurance)
Fortunately, my wife is also a cave diver, so no problems there. In fact, she prefers I be doing a solo cave dive than training students in the gulf because cave diving is safer!
My mother does worry, but not openly. She knows she won't stop me from doing it. I call her most days, especially when I've told her I'm planning a dive a certain day. Fortunately, she doesn't live in Florida so it's not right in her face. But she has been here to visit and seen me swimming into the caves. My mother doesn't know I solo. That would cause too much worry.
As for being a cave instructor, by the time I did that cave diving was already a part of it. I think they actually see the instructing as a safer venture because I'm "more careful because I'm responsible for others now." Actually, I'm just as careful, but whatever works to keep them at bay. They never even blinked an eye when I started working on becoming a cave instructor.
Rob Neto
Chipola Divers, LLC
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"Survival depends on being able to suppress anxiety and replace it with calm, clear, quick and correct reasoning..." -Sheck Exley
I always give my wife a quick call to let her know I'm out of the water and heading home.
Most of my family Dives, except my wife. I am the only cave diver, but my dad also does deep/technical stuff, just not cave.
Considering that I use to disarm bombs for the army and did 2 tours to Iraq, they accept my cave diving with open arms. They know that I have always taken a very methodical approach to everything I do, including diving.
My mother still worries about me, but don't all mothers do that?
And for my Wife to be a non-diver, she accepts it and we talk about it alot. She had used SCUBA in the pool and understands most of the jargon, but it just doesnt appeal to her. We have an agreement, I dive sunday mornings while she goes to church. I wont get into religion here, but we all have our differant ways of worship, and mine happens to be underwater. and she accepts that.
I used to get baptized in the Haymarket (Millbrook) Quarry every Sunday
- ok, now that's funny, i don't care who you are...Well when a mommy european and a daddy european love each other...
That or a lot of loose european women
~Jeff
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"Learning the techniques of others does not interfere with the discovery of techniques of one's own." B.F. Skinner, 1970.
True, but I just wondered why AW thought mankind began in Europe
humankind
i'm sure you meant to say humankind....True, but I just wondered why AW thought mankind began in Europe
be careful, shirley's around here somewhere.
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"Learning the techniques of others does not interfere with the discovery of techniques of one's own." B.F. Skinner, 1970.
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