while wrere at it how about steve Berman circa 1992

waht are the "grandady" clauses regarding cross overs ect....

Not to mention the good old "nitrox" wars , I still have an "ed bets"
nitrox card circa 91 when there was only one leval "nitrox" certifiacation
, before every one takcked on a whole bunch of "padi" type levals to force
you into taking several "cources" that you had to work up to get certified.
Same thing keeps going ons.

A few bad guys "shit" on all the well meaning hard working instructors who
keep the bull shit factor to a minimum abd instead give you real life
skills that can one day realy save yourr ass.

Best money I EVER spent for diving was those two trips to Fl. for my full
cave card. Steve han no qualms about failing srudents. He sat me down and
told me exactly where I needed to get my shi fixed , gave me a bumch of
maske and left me a ginne for a couple ghours. Once I had a mask that
dident leak everry thing came together.

Interesting how a simple thing can couse so much tension and taks loading .
My mask kept leaking on me.

He even pulled a fast one on one dive. We were doing jumps , and he turned
the arrow the other way as he want by(I was leading , he was behind) and on
the way out he swam ahead looked at the arrow on waited for me on the side
it piuonted. I came up to the arrow , looked at it , looked around to get
my bearinngs and signaled the other way. He had a big grin on his face ,
and later told me that almost all the students blindy follw tha arrow and
that he does this to show the importance of situational awareness and to
show haoe easy ti is to blindy follw some one who is more experianced that
you , and go beyond your abilities.

Like I said , best mony spent, haven silted out a wreck since that course ,
boy is it nice to see on your way out. Cave with the good no bulshit
instructer is kind of like boot camp. You get your shit together or you are
out. 




At 01:36 AM 4/5/2000 -0400, Skip MacElhannnnon wrote:
>I have an old NSS-CDS C-card signed by a guy named Jarrod Jablonski.  Would
>this one perhaps be exempted from from the ban?
>
>Skip
>
>
>
>At 10:47 AM 4/4/00 -0400, you 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
>>
>>
>>Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\NSSCDSan.htm"
>>
>

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