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  stevel@Vi*.on*.ca* (Steve Lewis) wrote (Re: 4 days to train from 100 to 240
on AIR):-
> ... Reminded me of the wide boys I saw as a kid, shuffling cards on street
> corners London's East End...Anyway, good that you brought it up because the
> only way to stop it is to educate people about what's wrong with running a
> course which seems to be focussed on turning out record seekers...and we all
> know were that leads.

  Ditto. When I am diving I prefer a really l-o-n-g wander in shallow well-lit
water, rather than have to go deep into dark and all the time my air is going
3 or 4 times faster than if I was shallower and the dive is over too quick and
I am risking bends. Diving costs, and I want to make a dive last a good while.
  But we don't want controls ad infinitum: when I was in the Red Sea in Sept
1995, I met 3 Portuguese divers who told me that until recently all sport
divers had to register their diving gear with the Navy like we in Britain have
to register guns.
  (Portuguese slogan that I saw on one of their T-shirts: `Mergulhar e amar o
mar' = "to dive is to love the sea")

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