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> Now, please don't get me wrong.  I am not advocating this type of program in
the 
> SCUBA/CCUBA community.  I bring this up as an example of what our government
can 
> do.  Remember, in the days of Orville and Wilber there were no regulations.  
> Then people started flying, crashing, and burning and the government started 
> drafting regulations.  Once there were regulations, people still crashed and 
> burned and soon, armed with these new regulations, people sued.  The result
was 
> more regulation (this time defacto by the insurance industry) and increased 
> costs, resulting in almost no basic light aircraft production in the last 20+ 
> years.  My only hope is that we can learn a lesson from this and avoid it in
the 
> SCUBA industry.

I think the main reason we're not likely to see the same level of govn't 
involvement in scuba/ccuba is that when you screw up on a rebreather, you 
don't run much of a risk of taking out a bunch of unsuspecting innocent 
bystanders.  The screw-up's buddy is not an innocent bystander.

Aloha,
Rich

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