Surviving diver recounts horror of Baja Mexico dive trip

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:59:27 GMT, "Lee Bell"
<leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> wrote:

>"Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis" wrote
>
>> I have never seen a
>> scuba equipment rating in CDNN--only recall notices, consumer alerts
>> and a few new product press releases.
>
>Even more amazing is that you
>> failed to notice all of the other NON-SPONSOR equipment manufacturers
>> that got "Best Buys" or "Best Gear" ratings, and that many of the
>> sponsor competitors were rated more often and above sponsor products.
>
>Ummm, there seems to be something wrong with these two statements.
>

There are at least half a dozen sites in the i-Planet scuba portal
network that vary considerably in focus and content. I may be wrong
but I don't think CDNN tests scuba equipment nor does the site contain
scuba equipment reviews. At least there is nothing in any of the
navigation menus (that I could find that) points to scuba equipment
features. The only stuff I found in CDNN focused exclusively on scuba
equipment is a news section that contains equipment recall
announcements.

Since this whole conversation started at the CDNN site, I guess that means
that you've strayed far from the subject matter.

Oh well.

--


Briggs Christie
Oahu Dive Center
Kailua, Hawaii
1-866-933-DIVE
www.oahudivecenter.com
"Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis" <fraudulent_gear_tests@rodales.com> wrote in
message news:adee046ccfe481324f26e7ee09e65538@news.teranew s.com...
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:35:01 GMT, "Oahu Dive Center"
> <res1iryt@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >"I have never seen a
> >scuba equipment rating in CDNN"
> >
> >http://i-planet.org/cyberdiver/gear/...yersguide.html
> >
> >Oh yeah, THAT equipment rating page.
> >
> >"Even more amazing is that you failed to notice all of the other
NON-SPONSOR
> >equipment manufacturers that got "Best Buys" or "Best Gear" ratings"
> >
> >You mean on the ratings page that you've never seen?
> >
> >"And still more amazing, is that you neglected to mention that of the 37
> >"Best Buy" equipment listings (I just counted them), Suunto, a sponsor,
was
> >NOTlisted at all. WHAT??? Cyber Diver did not feature their sponsor as
a
> >Best Buy product???"
> >
> >Really? I see the Suunto Vytec as the top-rated computer at 9.8 on the
page
> >noted above. And their "new gear" page is a full-page ad for it.
> >
> >http://i-planet.org/cyberdiver/gear/...r/newgear.html
> >
> >"best wishes for continued success distorting the truth and colluding
with
> >Rodale's to defraud the diving public!"
> >
> >Let's see...what was it that I was lying about again? The CDNN sponsor is
> >the top-rated gear and the new product full-page feature. Where excactly
did
> >I distort that?
>
> Repeat after me: "I, Christie Biggs, am a complete buffoon who failed
> my third-grade reading lessons. I am incapable of discerning the
> difference between Cyber-Diver.com (magazine style site focused mostly
> on scuba equipment and dive travel) and CDNN.info (a news portal with
> no scuba equipment reviews)." Both sites are part of the i-Planet
> scuba portal network, which also includes other scuba-related sites
> that are - SURPRISE - entirely different from either Cyber Diver or
> CDNN. The Cyber Diver site contains a Best Buys section that features
> 37 different items of scuba equipment BUT NOT ONE PRODUCT manufactured
> by Suunto, one of the sponsors you are referring to. I repeat: Not
> one Suunto product is contained in Cyber Diver's 'Best Buys' feature.
>
> http://www.cyber-diver.com/deal.html
>
> Now repeat after me: "I Christie Biggs, am a complete buffoon who
> failed my third-grade reading lessons. I am incapable of discerning
> the difference between two different comparative features - 'Best
> Scuba Equipment' and 'Best Buys'". In 'Best Scuba Equipment' Suunto
> and another manufacturer tied for the top rating according to the page
> I just looked at YET the non-sponsor was listed above Suunto. You
> neglected to mention that. Moreover, Cyber Diver is hardly alone in
> rating that particular Suunto product as the best or one of the best
> dive computers on the market. So the implication that Cyber Diver is
> somewho skewing the results to favor sponsors is absurd and nothing
> more than a rather transparent attempt to shift the focus away from
> the fact that you are so desperate for some promotion, Oahu Dive
> Center is attempting to profit from a Rodale's marketing scam that was
> widely criticized in this newsgroup, most notably by Captain Jim
> Wyatt. Here's what Captain Jim had to say about the scam and
> Rodale's, your wannabe partner in crime:
>
> Newsgroups: rec.scuba
> Subject: Rodales' Top 10 Dive Operators
> From: jim@reef-divers.com (Capt Jim Wyatt)
> Organization: Florida Keys Reef-Divers
> Message-ID: <91A5A612Ejim.ertyregultaor@65.82.44.7>
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> NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:31:41 EST
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:31:41 GMT
>
>
> Normally I try not to be negative or have negative comments...But
> having just scanned Rodales' March 2002 issue I have to say few
> things.
>
> Of the top 10 I know of 3 that hardly deserve such a fine review. One
> of them left divers on the reef for 26 hours. One had a dive boat sink
> loaded with divers. One of the others had a very dfficult time keeping
> their boat up to minimum standards to meet USCG requirements in terms
> of passing inspection.
>
> I have felt for a long time now that good reviews go to the highest
> bidders at Rodales'
>
> --
> Captain Jim Wyatt
> PADI Master Instructor #4612
> Florida Keys Reef-Divers
> http://reef-divers.com
>
>
> So let's see, what was that you were lying about again Christie?
> (hint: Oahu Dive Center + Rodale's marketing scam = ???)

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 06:16:27 GMT, Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis
<fraudulent_gear_tests@rodales.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:40:09 GMT, Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis
><fraudulent_gear_tests@rodales.com> wrote:
>
>>On 18 Nov 2003 15:29:23 -0800, Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com (Reef
>>Fish) wrote:
>>
>>>"rnf2" <rnf2@NOSPAMwaikato.ac.nz> wrote in message news:<3fba6dbb@news.iconz.co.nz>...
>>>
>>>A friend of mine once posted colo(u)rfully in his rare appearance in
>>>rec.scuba, "I feel like I am about to stick my pecker into a sackful
>>>of ferrets" -- this occasion certainly fits that bill for me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> "Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis" <fraudulent_gear_tests@rodales.com> wrote
>>>>
>>>> > That's easy! Anyone with at least a third-grade education who
>>>> > understands the meaning of "plagiarize" and can spell "gray".
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> it's Grey you undereducated Yank!! try and write English, not that horrid
>>>> corrupted Americanese.
>>>
>>>Don't you mean "Try to write" rather than "try and write"?
>>>Don't you also mean to have a comma between "horrid" and "corrupted",
>>>unless you think "horrid" is an adverb?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I bet you misspell colour too.
>>>
>>>Yup. He should spell it "colo(u)r" for uneducated Poms.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> rhys
>>
>>
>>Ouch! You can put your ferrets back in the sack now that you've
>>"de-peckered" another uneducated Pom bastard.
>
>Correction: Change "de-peckered" to "de-peckered and ferreted out" as
>in "...depeckered and ferreted out another uneducated Pom bastard."

Correction: Change "de-peckered and ferreted out another uneducated
Pom bastard" to "...de-peckered and ferreted out another uneducated
Kiwi wanker."

My apologies to uneducated Pom bastards.

"Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis" <ads@scubadiving.com> wrote in message
news:c255e243d946f6896bb15fc1f2238bc5@news.teranew s.com...
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 06:16:27 GMT, Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis
> <fraudulent_gear_tests@rodales.com> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:40:09 GMT, Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis
> ><fraudulent_gear_tests@rodales.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On 18 Nov 2003 15:29:23 -0800, Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com (Reef
> >>Fish) wrote:
> >>
> >>>"rnf2" <rnf2@NOSPAMwaikato.ac.nz> wrote in message
news:<3fba6dbb@news.iconz.co.nz>...
> >>>
> >>>A friend of mine once posted colo(u)rfully in his rare appearance in
> >>>rec.scuba, "I feel like I am about to stick my pecker into a sackful
> >>>of ferrets" -- this occasion certainly fits that bill for me.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> "Alan Shepard's Tiny Penis" <fraudulent_gear_tests@rodales.com> wrote
> >>>>
> >>>> > That's easy! Anyone with at least a third-grade education who
> >>>> > understands the meaning of "plagiarize" and can spell "gray".
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>> it's Grey you undereducated Yank!! try and write English, not that
horrid
> >>>> corrupted Americanese.
> >>>
> >>>Don't you mean "Try to write" rather than "try and write"?
> >>>Don't you also mean to have a comma between "horrid" and "corrupted",
> >>>unless you think "horrid" is an adverb?
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I bet you misspell colour too.
> >>>
> >>>Yup. He should spell it "colo(u)r" for uneducated Poms.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> rhys
> >>
> >>
> >>Ouch! You can put your ferrets back in the sack now that you've
> >>"de-peckered" another uneducated Pom bastard.
> >
> >Correction: Change "de-peckered" to "de-peckered and ferreted out" as
> >in "...depeckered and ferreted out another uneducated Pom bastard."
>
> Correction: Change "de-peckered and ferreted out another uneducated
> Pom bastard" to "...de-peckered and ferreted out another uneducated
> Kiwi wanker."
>
> My apologies to uneducated Pom bastards.

Wanker???

* looks around guiltily and slides the copy of playboy under the bed.*

Who? Me? Nope...
;)

rhys