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Jason Rogers <gasdive@sy*.DI*.oz*.au*> wrote (Subject: Re: HAWAII DCS ACCIDENT (fwd)):- > I guess that you meant SCUBA (as in self contained) diving should be banned > for this sort of activity (commercial diving). ... Scuba below 60 ft is > already banned (for commercial diving) in Australia. Since when? How much of this sort of law is (1) for genuine safety reasons, and how much (2) to stop people with cheap light quickly-used gear getting all the easy shallowish jobs? If (2), then I have nothing but for contempt for a law which makes work diving as heavy and awkward as in the old prewar days of hardhat kit merely to suppress commercial competition, screaming a few deaths emotively across the headlines and never mind that deaths per man-hour are much greater in deepwater trawling or some sorts of mining etc. Plus officials wanting to feel important controlling or restricting things. It is like the League of Nations embargo against importing anything from Italy in the late 1930's, allegedly to try to make Italy pull their troops out of Ethiopia, actually to stop unwanted commercial competition from Italian products (note that that embargo still allowed oil to be sold to Italy). It is like when town councils are too slap-happy with 30mph road speed limits until many drivers realize that `the law is an ass' and ignore the signs and dive by the road conditions. Likewise, the answer for that sort of idiocy by landlubber politicians who have never dived or run any diving operation in their lives, is `ignore the lot and dive and work by the site and water conditions'. > I'm told that Oceaneering has shitcanned it altogether, (But I have that 4th > hand) Who or what is Oceaneering?
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