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I was just in Mexico, and saw the worst case of abject stupidity in
cave gear ever 
encountered by me in my life, and it was on an "instructor". This guy
was teaching 
students who by the way were wearing open water gear. The state of cave
instructors has 
fallen to worse than even I have said it is. The US goobers are
themselves are an 
embarrassment to the animals on the surrounding farms, but these guys in
Mexico are an 
embarrassment to the insects flying around at the sinkholes as far a
stupidity below the 
sub human level, and I can see clearly that it is coming from some of
the usual suspects in 
cave diving.

This guy had the following atrocities on his person:

1) his long hose was connected to the left post

2) it was routed in the most convoluted fashion I have ever seen.

3) his inflator was also on his left post - this guy is a real thinker

4) his backup was on his right post but run across and back somehow -
too fucked up to 
even figure out. 

5) the pressure guage was on the right post. 

6) the rest of the gear was the usual slobbery and stroke fest that we
all have come  to 
recognize as "tech" - at least the guy did not have bondage wings like
so many others 
insturctors that I saw.

 This shit has got to stop. The idiots have got to come to realize that
a configuration like 
this spells death in too m ay cases, and we need some recognizable set
of standards for 
cave gear deployment that make some sense if these dopes are going to
teach it. We do 
not need any of them thinking for themselves, they have mostly all
proven thay are 
incapable. The agencies need to come up with a set of rules, not
"personal preference", 
and while there is only one config that anyone can sucessfully argue, I
think it is obvious 
that this config can not be sucessfully argued from any standpoint at
all. Just too stupid.

I would love to khow who the Farm Animal is that came up with putting
the long hose on 
the left post . Can anyone tell me who this blithering idiot is, and can
anyone tell me why 
we have all these cave diving training agencies and all of them ( other
than GUE ) are too 
freaking stupid to understand and enforce the basics. Anyone, can you
tell me?

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