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From: "Tom Mount" <TOM.MOUNT@in*.at*.ne*>
To: "Trey" <trey@ne*.co*>, "Scott Landon" <js_landon@ho*.co*>
Cc: <techdiver@aq*.co*>, <cavers@cavers.com>
Subject: Re: TEACHING 12 YEAR OLDS TO CAVE DIVE fact vs dilemina
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:40:29 -0400
Tom,

This can be forwarded to the list since it represents the accurate picture:

The student at Little River under private instruction from Paul Heinerth was
"interested" in the possibility of cave training and diving double tanks.
She
is very petite, but 25 years old. She did an orientation dive in the open
water
at Little River on the double tanks and some preliminary cavern swims with a
reel down to the permanent guideline and back a couple of times. She carried
her own doubles up and down the steps at Little River and with the guidnace
of
her instructor and fiance chose to delay continued training until she had an
opportunity to spend some time at the gym preparing to carry double tanks.
She
was quite sore after the day's activities.
I hope everyone recalls how challenging it can be when starting anything new
in
life. Sometimes we need a "taste" to see how much we have to learn. After a
discovery experience with a trained and sensitive instructor, sometimes
individuals can then have a better appreciation for the preparation that
they
will need before continuing dive training.
Everyone deserves to have the chance to learn and be a "guppie." Most of the
divers on this list will likely recall less than graceful times in their
past.
When new divers are nurtured, they often blossom into wonderful, talented
and
carfeul technical divers. Sometimes they don't. We all deserve a right to
try.

Jill Heinerth

Tom Mount wrote:

> Jill
> Thanks I'm not on the list either but they copy stuff like this to me,
> Imagined it would be something like that
>
> May I forward this to the list as some who read do not know better

Tom Mount
CEO IAND Inc / IANTD
TOM.MOUNT@in*.at*.ne*
Please note my new eMail address
----- Original Message -----
From: Trey <trey@ne*.co*>
To: Tom Mount <TOM.MOUNT@in*.at*.ne*>; Scott Landon
<js_landon@ho*.co*>
Cc: <techdiver@aq*.co*>; <cavers@cavers.com>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: TEACHING 12 YEAR OLDS TO CAVE DIVE


> Who was it that carried this 12 year old girl's double 95's to the water
at
> Little River, her "motha"?  Or was the girl 10? Show me the cavern at
little
> river ( all 20 feet of it ) and then tell me why the doubles were used for
a
> "single tank" course, and then the question I really have: Tom, why is it
> that whenever real bullshit show up, your name is all over it, and the
> Heinerths are right there as well? Why is it that you can give a straight
> answer to a question?
>
> I've got news for you , pal. Our sport is not here for you to screw up and
> try to extricate a buck out of. You have clowns like Garret Wineberg
> teaching open water while on a rebreather, and now this. What next?
>
> 10 dives and 12 years old - Bravo, Tom, you've hit a new low.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Mount <TOM.MOUNT@in*.at*.ne*>
> To: Scott Landon <js_landon@ho*.co*>; <trey@ne*.co*>
> Cc: <techdiver@aq*.co*>; <cavers@cavers.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: TEACHING 12 YEAR OLDS TO CAVE DIVE
>
>
>

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