Quote: (Originally Posted by
sadave)
I should have been more specific. In fact, I WAS, but edited it to remove names etc etc...
The presentation I'm talking about was made by a group of blokes that I consider mates. (after this post, wether they still consider me mates is another matter...
)... I didn't take the presentation as them blowing their own trumpet, but after hearing the comment from behind me, I listened with an ear to their point of view, and I can UNDERSTAND how that presentation could have been seen that way. I never saw it that way, mainly because I had at-length discussions with a number of the members of the expedition both before and after the expedition.
Yeh Im not sure why everyone is so hung up on assuming as soon as someone mentions depth that means that was their sole motivation. Its funny how we never hear someone tell JJ "hey you got to 12,000m in Wakulla - heck did you just do the dive for the sake of a distance record? hahah
Im also not sure why everyone is so hung up on assuming as soon as someone mentions the dive just happened to break some form of record (no matter how small) that their sole motivation was to break a record!
In other words mentioning a record was broken and mentioning the depth reached does NOT auto mean that either was their motivation.
And quite frankly so what if it was????
When Jerome does the amasing stuff he does he reports depth then distance and time at depths - I think thats the best way and perhaps stops some from jumping to the conclusion that depth record chasing was the goal.
GIN GIN GIN GIN!
Goto run and buy some limes!
Hope your buddies forgive you