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Mike,
Are you serious?  You will no longer recognize cave certifications from
NACD, NSS/CDS, CMOS, or IANTD at Madison Blue....you will only accept
GUE cards.  Please verify this position.
Also I guess Madison is still closed due to the river level.  Do you
still project reopening to diving on April 15th?
I don't know the details of you beef with the NSS/CDS or Bill Rennaker.
But wasn't Bill cleared to dive by his cardiologist, Dr J. Omeara, after
a cardiac catherization with stents which removed the only three
occluded areas that put him at risk for a heart attack?
Lee

Mike Bruic wrote:

> Due too the pathetic and sad state of affairs within the NSS/CDS, I am
> resigning my status as a active cave diving instructor and as a member
> of the NSS/CDS effective immediately (this means I can speak up). I
> will NOT have my name associated with any organization that in my
> opinion knowingly, and freely jeopardizes their students lives with
> instructor(s) that have had heart problems and/or surgery for this
> (the cds has three (3) of them, and all three are obese). A student
> in-trust his or her life with their instructor, and instructors with
> such a medical history are not a acceptable risk in cave diving
> instruction in my opinion. I will not have their blood (mainly their
> students) on my hands, nor in anyway support any such agencies that
> indorse these walking time bombs. This also includes the NACD and
> IANTD.  Let me enlighten this list about just one of these
> instructors. His name is Bill Rennaker, he likes to tell everyone that
> he is a sidemount diver. The fact is that he is so fat and obese that
> he needs sidemounts to fit his big ass into a cave that most of us can
> get into with back gas and double stage bottles. All he ever does, and
> has done as a cave diver is run his big mouth about shit he knows
> nothing about (mainly cave diving).  Potato chips, Twinkies, Chilly
> Dogs and Soda pop are his only proven area of knowledge, we all know
> this, and he wonders why he had a stroke and/or heart attack (Yes, he
> is that stupid). But what really scares me is that is one of the
> NSS/CDS's prize instructors, and they will defend this Sea Cow at any
> and all cost, apparently even if it involves innocent students. If any
> of you on this list have enemies out there, send them to any of the
> above listed agencies, if they are friends, send them to GUE. These
> are the only people in the game that have a clue as to what the hell
> is going on in cave diving, and there accomplishments prove it. Also,
> GUE cards are now the only ones that will be excepted at Madison Blue
> Springs from this day forward for cave diving. Bruic

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