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I neglected to mention that this genius went on to recommend that this person get DAN insurance, rather than not dive , as should be the case. In between was a load of weenie slop about the dive profile, a total joke itself, and nothing that would require five seconds of deco for a normal person. People who use drugs, smoke cigarettes, drink, and otherwise are unable to live their live without something to satisfy their addictions or take the edge off of reality, and for whom a sedentary lifestyle is the norm have no business diving, no matter what DAN and PADI say. These types swell the rolls of the accident victims and DCS cases, inflating the medical costs associated therwith and eventually will make us all pay more or not be able to get coverage for genuine accidents. DAN needs to wake up and get serious about this, rather than coing up with more ways to be a good weenie -the training agencies and computer manufacturers already have that one covered. - G On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, "George M. Irvine III" <gmiiii@in*.co*> wrote: > > > Check this out: in the recent issue of "Alert Diver", the Director of Medical >Sevices for DAN wrote the following: > > "The Diver: A recently certified 25-year-old woman had just returned > from her first weekend dive vatcation in Mexico. She takes mild med- > ication for anxiety and smokes a pack of cigarettes daily. She's in > good physical shape but isn't involved in a regular exercise program." > > and it goes donwhill from here. > > Can anyone tell me what kind of idiot would write this, and when DAN is going >to quit pumping out slop like this and figure out that 1) diving is not for >everybody, and 2) that they are doing nobody any good with their collective >heads burried this deeply in the sand. - G > > > >
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