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From: <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:58:12 -0400
To: bdi@wh*.ne*
CC: Tom Mount <TOM.MOUNT@wo*.at*.ne*>, Ken Sallot <sallot@mi*.co*>,
     William J Turbeville II , techdiver@aq*.co*,
     cavers@cavers.com
Subject: Re: Fatality at Die Polder III
This says it all - Tom who do you think you are fooling? The best in the
business say you are dead wrong. Billy hit it right ont he head in his
first sentence, and you just don't get it.

bdi@wh*.ne* wrote:

 
> Tom, your sticker collection is so complicated
> it serves to obscure the one piece of information
> the diver & his buddy need, when they need it.
> 
> It won't prevent more needless tragedies than
> simply marking the MOD as per WKPP standards, in
> 3" high numbers & letters.
> 
> It will, however, sell a shit-load of IANTD tags,
> stickers and labels to the hero-gas crowd, and so
> keep your franchisees happy.
> 
> Which, after four years of watching you defend the
> indefensible, i'm coming to believe is the real
> agenda.
> 
> >Unfortunately many of the more experienced divers are the ones who
> >tend to ignore these practices when diving on their own. A fact history has
> >already proven.
> 
> Why, then, did the history of last year prove that
> the ones most at risk were inexperienced divers and
> students diving with IANTD instructors?
> 
> At least the TDI instructors usually only whack
> themselves.
> 
> rgrds   billyw


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