Comments on: Be-Brief http://www.undercurrent.org/blog/2009/11/12/dive-safety-briefings-realistic/ Diving opinions from top diving experts in the dive industry Thu, 24 May 2012 23:26:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: bret gilliam http://www.undercurrent.org/blog/2009/11/12/dive-safety-briefings-realistic/comment-page-1/#comment-380 bret gilliam Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:59:40 +0000 http://www.undercurrent.org/blog/?p=437#comment-380 Since being introduced to Bob Halstead's insightful, reasoned, and articulate writings about 20 years ago, I have gone out of my way to chase them down and read them. Then share them with others as part of my own crusade to emancipate divers from the neo-con morons dead set on advancing their own absurd agendas designed to forever set diving's bar to the lowest common denominator and skill level. Neither Bob nor John Bantin suffer fools gladly and I have reveled in the Triangle of Truth the three of us have advocated from Australia, England, and the U.S. Together, I'd like to think we helped to move the sport along since all the policies and practices we advocated became mainstream... much to the consternation of the knuckleheads who'd like everyone to wear black wet suits, use dive tables instead of computers, never place their masks on the foreheads, dive below 130 feet, or (god forbid!) return to the boat with less than 25% of your air supply remaining. Everything Bob notes in this piece is dead-on! Especially the part about "brief" being the key word in "briefing". Keep telling it like it is, Bob! Bret Gilliam Since being introduced to Bob Halstead’s insightful, reasoned, and articulate writings about 20 years ago, I have gone out of my way to chase them down and read them. Then share them with others as part of my own crusade to emancipate divers from the neo-con morons dead set on advancing their own absurd agendas designed to forever set diving’s bar to the lowest common denominator and skill level. Neither Bob nor John Bantin suffer fools gladly and I have reveled in the Triangle of Truth the three of us have advocated from Australia, England, and the U.S. Together, I’d like to think we helped to move the sport along since all the policies and practices we advocated became mainstream… much to the consternation of the knuckleheads who’d like everyone to wear black wet suits, use dive tables instead of computers, never place their masks on the foreheads, dive below 130 feet, or (god forbid!) return to the boat with less than 25% of your air supply remaining.

Everything Bob notes in this piece is dead-on! Especially the part about “brief” being the key word in “briefing”. Keep telling it like it is, Bob!

Bret Gilliam

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