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 Tom, why is all of your email addressed to me I do not know or care what IANTD 
standards are. I also don;t care what my divers teach for a living, but I can 
assure you that what somebody gets from  Jablonski is s hell of lot better than 
what they get from you or the rest of the strokes you have on staff - I have 
seen this first hand.          

  Now the accident. It was not a TDI class, it was a deep air dive on the 
Skycliffe. The instructor does not teach IANTD becasue he does not feel that 
jerking people around with various levels of nitrox and levels of deep air
makes 
any sense, just to get money out of them. WHile he was not teaching, the victim 
had been his student ( a familiar story). 

  The problem was that apparently this womoan hit her head so violently against 
the wreck that she broke her mask, put a huge bump on her head, and knocked 
herself out. What does that sound like to you, Tom (other than the usual 
strokery)?

   Then, the boyfriend of the girl tried to get her up, but not knowing how to 
do this (I guess one takes courses lke PADI Rescue after all of the IANTD 
horseshit, and after they then go learn how to dive), he bobbled it a little, 
and then just sent her packing by inflating her bc. She luckily made it all the 
way up without pneumothoraxing, and then Lyn Simmons, one of the absolute best 
in the business, spotted the problem ( a blue and grey -faced diver, certainly 
dead accoring to Lynn), and immediately had her divemaster yank the girl out. 
Lyn said that the commotion actually revived the girl, whom they then put on 
oxygen while calling the Coast Guard. Lyn said they were down a total of 6 
minutes. 

    Here is the bad part - the deco weenies (other than the boyfriend) would
not 
bring the girl up to the surface or help, as they needed to do their deco for 
their six minute dive. 

     These kind of pussies I never want to see at one of my dive sites, and 
whoever teaches this kind of weenery should be shot on sight. 

      The girl and the boyfriend were both ok, and unbent. The deco weenies did 
not get bent either. 

      Tom, who is teaching this kind of weenery? I would not even consider
doing 
a safety stop for less than a fifteen minute dive at 200 feet, and then only to 
be sure I did not get run over by the boat.

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