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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 04:18:32 -0700
From: George Irvine <gmiiii@in*.co*>
Subject: Deep Nitrox Again?
To: cavers@ge*.co*, techdiver@terra.net
	

       I hear of another problem with PPO2's in a nitrox class, and from the 
same instructor who already killed one guy. When is this going to change? Let's 
hear the agency justification of this absolutely stupid practice. I really hope 
somebody finally gets smart and sues these idiots, and I am going to see if I 
can persuade this person, who survived  not due to any effort by the instructor 
, but by the boat crew, to sue this gang of dolts, so we can give them the 
two-by-four over the head they so desparately need.

       I am tired of argueing wtih these people - time to take action  . If you 
are an aspiring "tech" diver, and you are thinking of taking the deep air, deep 
nitrox , etc, don't do it. This is comeplete and utter bullshit. You will have 
to be retrained to do any real diving, and the little certification is crap. 
What you will be taught will do you more harm than good. All these cards are 
good for is getting fills from some officious weenie.

        The PADI course is better and safer for this. At least they have a 
divemaster to save you when something goes wrong. Then yoy can get your little 
nitrox fills, until you get smart enought to do it yourself. When you get real 
smart, and can do third grade math, you will be able to figure out the rest
for yourself, and if you can actually read, you will be able to get the correct 
information and assimilate it yourself, rather than listen to some half wit's 
interpretation.

         Ask yourself why the pros, who do this all of the time successfully,
do 
not follow any of the bullshit pratices that the agencies teach, and why 
commmercial diving has long ago shunned what these guys recommend? I would
realy 
love to find out who the idiotic insurance company that covers these guys is. 
Does anyone konw? I would love to have a word with them.




        

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