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I've been reading this whole thread with shock. I coached 12 year olds in soccer and at that age they are still very much developing motor skills. Can you imagine one of them trying to close off a cracked manafold while in a panic??! Or helping a diver that is in need of rescue? If these 12 year olds go on to advanced diving at 13, 14, or 15 those are the ages where some of the worst accidents take place because of the "Superman Syndrome". Kids, and I do mean kids think that they are impervious. The parents also tend to push their kids into wreckless behavior - "be a footbal star early...". Cave or Cavern - it does not matter. I also think that the PADI bubble blower program is NUTS! Along the lines of divers that smoke and fat slobs in the water (fat=nitrogen retension)! One of these days the insurance industry is going to wise up to these idiots and we are all going to be screwed. I don't want to have to lie about a sport that I love in order to keep insurance. John Dudas PDDC WWW.dcdiver.com --- Trey <trey@ne*.co*> wrote: > We need to take Alton public. The tec diving > bullshit is so far beyond the pale it is ridiculous. > It is only a matter of time before these guys : 1) > lose their insurance, 2) get diving regulated, 3) > cause such an uproar that the kind of diving we do > will be illegal. > > Notice that they all go along with it, because the > NACD , the CDS, and the rest of the game is all run > by dive instructors who are trying to make a living > out of our sport. These people are parasites of the > worst order. I can not wait until the releases they > use to get away with bullshit start getting thrown > out,and they eventually will due to the degree to > which these people display a cavalier attitude about > human life, and the low level of trailer trash that > teaches diving for the most part these days. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jess Armantrout <armantrout@mc*.co*> > To: MrClark95@ao*.co* <MrClark95@ao*.co*>; > wkpp@eg*.co* <wkpp@eg*.co*> > Cc: cavers@cavers.com <cavers@cavers.com> > Date: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:28 PM > Subject: Re: "Junior" Cave Divers? > > > >George, > >How do I buy stock in Alton's company? > > > >Trout > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <MrClark95@ao*.co*> > >To: <wkpp@eg*.co*> > >Cc: <cavers@cavers.com> > >Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 6:51 PM > >Subject: "Junior" Cave Divers? > > > > > >> > >> > >> I have just heard that IANTD is now > offering "junior overhead" > >> diving courses for twelve-year-olds including > cave diving, and two other > >> "junior" courses for twelve year olds. It seems > to me that this is why > >kids > >> have parents - to keep them from acting like > armadillos crossing the road. > >If > >> this is indeed true, then this is a new low in > the "Anything For A Buck" > >> category. > >> > >> Maybe Mount can explain this one to > us, and CC his "Board of > >> Advisors", so we can at least see a list of who > approves of this kind of > >> nonsense, if indeed it is even true, which is > hard to believe, and see who > >it > >> is that is obviously trying desperately to put an > end to diving as we know > >> it, or at least cave and "tec" diving as we know > it. I can see one of > >these > >> newpaper headlines now, "12 year old drowns in > cave, writes note to mommy > >on > >> tank, IANTD card found in MIkey Mouse lunch box > on bike". > >> > >> What next? > >> > >> > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
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