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Hi everybody, My name�s John and I live in Pasadena-CA. I�ve been doing scuba diving ( and cave diving ) for long time and I have some Brazilian�s friends that live near my area and dive with me. Yesterday I heard something that for me is a joke, but it�s not. One of the Brazilian friend sign a Brazilian�s cave dive list, and he said me that now they�re having a discussion with authorities of Brazilian Cave dive section about �why� the necessity of a cave diver guide for certified cave divers to dive in their caves (in all caves of the country). I couldn�t understand well, but there are some guys complaining and wanting explanations about the cave law (from Brazilian environmental agency)that don�t allow anybody in Brazil dive in their caves without a cave diver guide. The law prohibit not only divers, which don�t have cave certification, dive in the lake of the cave ( if you wanna dive in the lake, you should have a guide to dive with you), but also prohibit divers that have cave certification (cavern, intro to cave and cave diver(include experienced cave divers)) make their penetration in the cave without these guides, and I�m not saying about solo dives, the law don�t allow buddy dives without the guide. My Brazilian friend couldn�t explain me what is the paper of this cave diver guide. My Brazilian�s friends and I concluded that cave divers from Brazil are such a incompetent, bad, and moron divers that they can�t dive by themselves and need a �baby-sitter� to guide them inside a cave. Imagine the situation, four guys ( include the baby-sitter) diving in a cave hand in hand like kids in a elementary school (Oh, man!!!). Or in a worst case, imagine if the law is here in U.S. Trey and J.J attempting other world record in cave penetration, but at this time having a high fat slob cave diver guide following them till the end of the cable (If it were possible), just because a stupid law demand that they should have one. Trey, I know that they have lots of IANTD stroke divers there ( I remember some discussion that you had with them long time ago when a diver died attempting deep air in a cave), but are there any GUE cave divers ? If not, I think that you and J.J should go to Brazil and teach them the DIR fundamentals and philosophy to these people dive better. Best regards and dive safe ( without a cave baby-sitter guide of course !!!!), johndive. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
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