Looking for diving fiction from the 70s (60s?)

<94bears@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings from the past!

Gone but not forgotten, Dude!

I was just in SF a few weeks ago.

>I see much stays the same. I've spent much
> of the last 4 years with the online skydiving community who also talk
> early and often about guns. Not too surprising - I think any activity
> that requires a willingness to face fear will have a lot of people who
> aren't afraid of well engineered pieces of steel.
>
> But why no more DIR fights (I see Mike retains his favored Stroke
> name)?

Strokes ran the flag up on "Suribachi".

Sorry to hear about your shoulder.

We still talk about scuba when the need arises.

> Solo diving? PADI versus NAUI (or SSI to be more 21st
> century)? I'm still a solo diving backplate diver, now supporting an
> Aquatica housed 20D enroute to Coco in 3 weeks. Hope I figure out wtf
> I'm doing, having used a S400 and the Aquashots prior to now.
>
> Onto my question of interest - a couple decades ago I read a young
> adult fiction of a surfer who got trounced by the waves and takes up
> diving instead. I believe it was set in Southern California, had to
> have been published in the 60s or 70s. I can't remember anything
> about the title, unlike another one I remember reading "Have
> Spacesuit, Will Travel." Anyone got a bead on this one?
>
> Alternatively, what other decent UW oriented fiction can I read on
> that 36 hour boat trip?

Not UW, but -just- right for a boat trip:

"In The Heart Of The Sea".

The -real- story of Moby Dick (and 90 days in a lifeboat with 10 days of
food).

Chilling.

One of the ten best books I ever read.

> Cheers
> Jason O'Rourke
> last dive - November, Lake Elsinore, 12,500ft, 45 seconds.
>



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On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:09:56 -0800, 94bears wrote:

> Just before I augered in at 65mph

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Kind of depends on how the wreck goes... I've laid a bike down at 65 and
came away with only a couple of scuffed spots on my fatigues and I
walked away from it... I've been slower than that and had a lower leg
physically detached from the rest of my body... It's not the speed, but
how quickly you decelerate and perhaps what part of your body is acting as
the brake pad...

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[Default] Thus spake Grumman-581 <grumman581-usenet-2008@spambob.net>:

>On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:09:56 -0800, 94bears wrote:
>
>> Just before I augered in at 65mph
>
><snip>
>
>Kind of depends on how the wreck goes... I've laid a bike down at 65 and
>came away with only a couple of scuffed spots on my fatigues and I
>walked away from it... I've been slower than that and had a lower leg
>physically detached from the rest of my body... It's not the speed, but
>how quickly you decelerate and perhaps what part of your body is acting as
>the brake pad...

I got into the marbles at TWS on an RD350. I kept praying "bike ahead
of rider" until I came to a stop. Bike totaled, me broken left ulna.
I did it on Saturday and made class on Monday.

[Default] Thus spake 94bears@gmail.com:

Hey guy!!!

>Greetings from the past! I see much stays the same. I've spent much
>of the last 4 years with the online skydiving community who also talk
>early and often about guns. Not too surprising - I think any activity
>that requires a willingness to face fear will have a lot of people who
>aren't afraid of well engineered pieces of steel.

Hmm, what was my comment from a few years ago?

"Scub diving and sky diving. It's all fun until you run out of air"

>
>But why no more DIR fights (I see Mike retains his favored Stroke
>name)? Solo diving? PADI versus NAUI (or SSI to be more 21st
>century)? I'm still a solo diving backplate diver, now supporting an
>Aquatica housed 20D enroute to Coco in 3 weeks. Hope I figure out wtf
>I'm doing, having used a S400 and the Aquashots prior to now.
>
>Onto my question of interest - a couple decades ago I read a young
>adult fiction of a surfer who got trounced by the waves and takes up
>diving instead. I believe it was set in Southern California, had to
>have been published in the 60s or 70s. I can't remember anything
>about the title, unlike another one I remember reading "Have
>Spacesuit, Will Travel." Anyone got a bead on this one?
>
>Alternatively, what other decent UW oriented fiction can I read on
>that 36 hour boat trip?

Didn't G. Gordan Liddy write a book about Cozumel sometime in the
early 70s? Before a) it became popular and b) he became a second rate
burglar (but after he became a pretty damn good "wet artist")

>
>Cheers
>Jason O'Rourke
>last dive - November, Lake Elsinore, 12,500ft, 45 seconds.