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To whom it may concern:

First of all lets make things clear here.
 My name is Jose Barba, not Barbi.  I was one of
the individuals who took the IEC course with Joe Odom,
 who in fact is the director/trainer for TDI.

Next the important issue is to say thanks to Joe
for conducting an excellent course and doing a great
 job at that!  As I understand he asked Steve Gerard
and German Yanez to be involved with the course.
But weeks before Steve was planning to start a boycot
against the course so both of them refused to assist
 Joe.  Also not only Al Partner certified instructors
 at the express way.  Also Steve certified
a group of Brazilians just in one week by himself.
  And what about Villa Del Rosa´s IEC course two years
ago?  Three of those instructors were certified by Steve,
 including his wife by INTD.  To let you
know more about what´s going on here in Mexico,
 German Yanez just finished his book about cave
diving and he, that is the only course director
for the Mexican Ferderation of diving is introducing
the cave program and certifing the first cave instructors
by who knows by what standards.
I am a certified diver since 1987 and have been living
in the area for 8 years now. I work for different dive
shops and not too long ago we used to go to the cenotes
without alot of problems.  In fact, I used to take people
in without my cave certification.  But it seems that for us
it´s a long way to learn because there´s always somebody
that for economical reasons change the sport of diving
with political problems.
Steve, I tried to contact you for quite some time
and I´ve even given you my email address to reply.
Are you really concerned about cave diving or is
it just the money?
diving program and certifing the new instructors by these standards, not by
the 
standards of the other associations.

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