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On 4 Mar 2003, at 5:59, Dunn, Drew A. wrote: > Is this link supposed to support your idea of scuba police > wrestling with and detaining rouge sport divers? My purpose was mainly to make people aware about the risk of authoritarianism and unnecessary controls creeping up on sport scuba diving, particularly if those new laws are encouraged by disciplinarian naval types and backed up by a diving police hard- squad wanting to see documents even underwater. I read that France has or had diving sea-police. Some foreign countries have severely restricted sport diving, and we don't want it to happen in UK or USA. Tito's old large Yugoslavia in some areas even banned snorkelling! Greece also got restrictive due to paranoia about divers taking archaeological relics, and worst under the rule of the Colonels, and the Greek equivalent of BSAC was nearly dead. [rogue = out of control; rouge -= women's make-up.] > > http://www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com/appleyard/seapatrol/u > > I mentioned possible usefulness of this in by naval divers > > and diving sea-police giving better speed and agility underwater > > in arresting sport divers who get in the wrong place. He said > > that if the patrol diver has an Inspiration, in a fight with a > > suspect there is a risk of the suspect knowing about Inspirations > > and jabbing at the large and easily reached feed- pure-oxygen > > button, not a good thing at 60 feet. He said that in the naval > > version that vulnerability is corrected. A few times that sort of thing may be necessary, when sport divers get into a naval or shipping area and need to be got out; or in war time underwater fights may happen between opposing sides' frogmen. One indicator that has happened in the past and has caused security scares, that underwater security in a naval base had got slack, has been a sport diver, with no combat training and a noisy bubbly aqualung, signing his name on the underside of a warship and getting away afterwards. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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