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George
I have not got any news on the accident you are reporting. did someone 
die have a near miss or what and what mix were they diving?

The person you refer to if it is theone I think it is is not an IANTD 
technical instructor he teaches tek diving with TDI not that that may or 
may not have anything to do with an accident.

However IANTD standards insist on bottom po2 of 1.4 operational and 1.5 
what if depths in training and training is the only place we have any 
say so on. Was it a training course please give some details.

As far as IANTD standards and practices talk to JJ , Steve Berman, and 
the other IANTD instructors who are on your team.

tom

George Irvine wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>        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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