BJ's article in Diver

[Paul Evans]

Big up to BJ for his article in Diver this month, last page..........

Spot on IMHO.........

Nice one John.

[Buoyant Babe]

I don't get Drivel Mag What does it say?

[Andy the Coastie]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

I don't get Drivel Mag What does it say?

PMSL ,,,,, green inbound

[Mark C]

Summerised:

New Divers on decilne
Sales on decline as we all got the stuff we want (ish)

Forums discussing techi dives with mixed gases/rebreathers - expensive
or expensive photo/video rigs

Diving becoming for the rich
More people holiday dive than UK dive - rather spend on other stuff

Emaressment for getting exicited over a 15M dive

Overcompicating things

Need for not making people who learn abroad feel scared off or stupid

without the numbers ther will be fewer divers, therefoer fewer places to get equipment and air.

Essentaially dont drone on about how expensive the best things are, big up some of the cheeper sides to the sport and we may get more holidays divers to dive UK (and possibly even train in the uk!!)

[Jay_Benson]

Originally Posted by Mark C

Summerised:

New Divers on decilne
Sales on decline as we all got the stuff we want (ish)

Forums discussing techi dives with mixed gases/rebreathers - expensive
or expensive photo/video rigs

Diving becoming for the rich
More people holiday dive than UK dive - rather spend on other stuff

Emaressment for getting exicited over a 15M dive

Overcompicating things

Need for not making people who learn abroad feel scared off or stupid

without the numbers ther will be fewer divers, therefoer fewer places to get equipment and air.

Essentaially dont drone on about how expensive the best things are, big up some of the cheeper sides to the sport and we may get more holidays divers to dive UK (and possibly even train in the uk!!)

Hang on though if we do that we won't be elitist anymore.

[Scubee]

Where did he get the material for his article? off here?
Most of that is logical conclusions. It is a 'luxury hobby' that we all want to do spending as little money as possible. Flying abroad is cheap and i would have said easy, except we now have T5. It costs little more to go to Tenerife for a weekend than it does to go to portland for a weekend.

And don't say anything is cheap - it devalues the product

(p.s. I haven't read the article - this is based on Marks summary and half a bottle of red)

[big_si]

I think that's a total outrage! Someone obviously penned that and put bantin's name against it..... There wasn't a sing;e reference to one of his rich friends so it couldn't have been him!!

[Hellenic Diver]

havnt read it, but if there was no mention of how he hasnt put on any weight in the last 40 years - he didnt right it!

[Frankie Price]

Originally Posted by Hellenic Diver

havnt read it, but if there was no mention of how he hasnt put on any weight in the last 40 years - he didnt right it!

Page 114 Bantin waffles on about expensive kit, page 115 advert for Veecam, video for extreme environments, waterproof to 100m etc.

[quote] Don't put them off by stressing how complex and expensive it is. It's cheap and easy.[quote]

John, wake up and smell the coffee.

[Janos]

I don't remember the article. But I think that the overwhelming majority of divers are not techie, and don't spend an awful lot of time on the internet.

YD represents the keenest 2 or 3% of divers. It's not representative of diving as a whole.

Janos