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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 13:50:36 -0800
From: "George M. Irvine III" <gmiiii@in*.co*>
Subject: Officious "Experts" was dive shop "cartels"
To: Mark Caney <Mark.Caney@cy*.co*.cy*>
Cc: techdiver@terra.net


   Mark, I was not criticizing the concept of technical
training at all. In fact, I have to commend Mount for 
taking the time to write a book and start an agency to 
do this, gathering as much information as he could, and
making it available in one place. 

   You and I agree on the solution to regulation prevention,
I see, and I see we agree on the deep air issue. The thing we 
have here that you may not see is the teaching community 
pushing students to take all kinds of courses before they
get a chance to work on their diving, and then they have 
a "step aside for the experts" attitude, which is really
amusing.

    The cave communtiy is the absolute worst in 
this regard, as we have all kinds of blubbering goobs who
think that what they call cave diving (dressing up in 
a lot of crap and pretending to do a big dive in Peacock,
seven hundred times a year for twenty years) is anything
but a complete joke. Real cave diving is only taught by a
handfull of individuals, and is only practiced by a few
more, but who am I to tell these guys how to do it right
when they have been doing it wrong for so long? - G


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