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George, These are the most "to the point" words I have read here in some time. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure this stuff out. So what going on. How many people do these tech agencies have to kill before they get the point. Are they totally clueless? -- Regards, Mike ---------- > From: gmiiii@in*.co* > To: JimH720113@ao*.co*; rwright@is*.ne* > Cc: techdiver@terra.net > Subject: Re: Great Lakes Death Info. > Date: Wednesday, July 10, 1996 10:24 PM > > > It is always the same - complete gear buffoonery that is so horrifying that > any number of things could have happened, like trying to figure out what killed > the passengers on the Value Jet crash in Miami - it was being too stupid to do > it right and fly a real airline - just like you guys with your bogus gear > configs. > > I like your quote , Jim , "never should have happened" - we need to make the > tape mandatory viewing for you guys. I did a gear-rigging seminar at an NACD > conference two years ago, and it pissed the people off so badly that they said > they would boycott the conference last year if I was allowed to do it again, and > all I did was show the slide version of the film. > > Let's walk through it: first, several years ago when we learned to dive, there > were only harnesses and regulators, one regulator (then we had pressure guages). > That one reg was the one we breathed, and the one we shared. We learned how to > do that, and the hose was long enouugh to do so, and take a diver up. > > Then, commercial divers started using a backup reg, which they hung > aroung their neck on a strap, in fact, many of the "backup regs" CAME THAT WAY > > We hung that around our neck and still breathed the other one, which > we also shared, since the backup was hung around our neck - ARE YOU GUYS > FOLOWING THIS? > > Then along came bc's, and those were actually a third regulator, if > you held in both buttons at the same time. > > Then along came strokes, and colored the "octopus", named it the "safe > second", and STUFFED it, like any real stroke would. Then came these same > strokes teaching diving to everyone who could write a check, and we end up with > the following: > > Two divers, with six regs between them, and one drowns because they are > rigged like strokes and have no clue, likely because the dive industry has no > clue, and taught them to rig improperly, and tought them no useful skills. I > would love to get some of your "instructors" in the water for a few minutes. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'.
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