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| Originally Posted by NotDeadYet What's the point of going underwater at all? How many of us can say that we do it for any real benefit to anyone other than as an entertainment for ourselves? Cave diving doesn't carry much more inherent risk than a 20m dive on a reef. The difference is that cavers are aware of it, open water divers aren't necessarily.
In terms of risk vs pointlessness, all forms of diving has to be up there. It's entertainment pure and simple. I've heard a lot of people chanting a load fo spiritual bollox about how it puts them in tune with... whatever... but it's an entertainment in the same way that climbing mountains, skiing, kicking a small ball round a field, etc., demonstrate just how good humans are at doing pointless things, which essentially comes down to our own selfish interest in self-gratification and serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever to the rest of humanity. So we got Goretex? Great, can you eat it?
I'm happy with that. If you start looking for a higher purpose before you do anything you'll spend the rest of your life sat on your arse watching the clock tick past.
Cheers,
Stuart |
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| Originally Posted by devilgas totally agree. some folks are just happier with rock over their heads. 
the risk is always there (whatever you do) it's the risk management that lets you do it. i'm suprised that an adv tri instr is so narrow minded to think that cave diving is for strokes and cannot think outside of DIR....perhaps the horizons need to be expanded?  |
Not much more to add except ............................. isn't it considered offensive to go around calling people strokes and if it's acceptable to put it in a thread title I reckon we NON_DIR divers should come up with an equally derisive name for DIR divers
Personally I tend to go with 'US Military' and people usually understand I mean "can't think for themselves" and, sadly, the OP does nothing to alter my perception
On a positive note, I have plenty of time for the members of Team Foxturd (well, most of them
) and other DIR divers on YD who are not so narrow minded and clearly have an organic brain in their skulls, rather than a CPU.