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>You are comparing apples to oranges here. Flying in a commercial airplane
>is not implicitly dangerous, scuba diving is. When you get on an
>airplane, you do not prepare for possible death situations (I mean who
>listens to the flight attendants, anyways?).
I Do. Don't you count the number of rows the nearest exit?
>When you go scuba diving you prepare extensively for possible death
situations. When you get on an
>airplane, you trust your life to the pilots. When you dive you trust your
>life to your own common sense and abilities.
If I hired a boat to get me to the site, I expect the boat to be there when I
surface. 40 miles out in the
Gulf is a long way to swim thinking about my common sense and abilities. Also,
do not dwell on death
just before diving. Visualize a good dive, but have a solid backup plan in case
of emergency.
>This is one area where
>initial scuba training falls short. Instruction is not designed to scare
>away or even intimidate the faint of heart.
To live in fear or to advocate fear is not only dumb, but eventually self
defeating! Disseminate
Knowledge, not fear!
>Not enough information is
>provided to the budding diver as to the manifold hazards associated with
>diving.
If you mean crossover manifold, the only hazard is someone else touching mine.
Otherwise... huh?
The bottom line is:
When you put your dollar on the counter, you are supposed to be purchasing a
service the retail operation
is reasonably qualified to provide. Furthermore, if the service includes any
equipment, it should be
reasonably maintained and ready for use.
Likewise, you as the customer are tasked with following the instructions of the
retail operation and to
conduct yourself in a reasonable and safe manner.
In Win's case, there happened to be a supposedly qualified person on board the
boat called THE CAPTAIN.
His job (as his license states) is to provide the customers with a safe and
enjoyable service. If it can
be demonstrated that the captain did not follow proper protocol or acted
improperly, then the blame rests
with him. Conversely, if it can demonstrated that Win did not act in a safe and
reasonable manner or did
not follow the captain's instructions, than the blame rests with Win.
However, from the short time that I knew Win, I would GUESS that THE CAPTAIN
acted improperly NOT Win!
Dale S. Harrod
DIVSERSe Technologies, Inc.
Diverse@po*.ga*.ne*
http://www.DiveVoyager.com
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