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>Lori
>On the oxygen issue, if you will take the time to pay a laywere as we
>have you will find that if you have an ACCIDENT IN A MIXING OR USE
>SITUTATION THAT BECAUSE OF (excuse the caps mistake) thye laws, CGA
>which is more strict etc. If you are using excess of 40% you will most
>likely lose everything you have or ever will have in a lawsuit. If you
>wish to read any number of papers on the issue you will find that there
>is danger in pure o2 in non compatiable systems. Luckily almost all
>manufactres are now offering nitrox compatiable (thus oxygen
>compatiable regulators tha meet the spec upon purchase to be used with
>02). If you value your estate ,and as I have spent alife time
>developing mine I value it you will stay within the 40% rule in a
>teaching classr etc situtation as an individual do what you wish
>provided you pump your own gas and maintain your equipoment. If you
>have a shop servive it and thewre is an accident he is in a serious
>liability situtation.
So, basically, Joan is correct.
Your motivation is fear of lawsuits, not pursuit of the truth.
Furthermore, fear of lawsuits would prevent any change to the status quo,
regardless of the validity of that change.
Mr. Mount, you've made my decision regarding your agency.
I would never support or patronize an agency that cowers in the shadows
of ignorance, afraid to come out and learn truth because of liability
issues.
In contrast, I observe people like our (in)famous George, or the Captains
I dive with in British Columbia, or Bill Brooks, who runs one of the
finest dive stores on the continent, none of whom are afraid of lawsuits,
in spite of the information they disseminate, the risks associated with
that dissemination, or the risks associated with their operation.
The only conclusion I can reach, Mr. Mount, is that the difference is
knowledge and competence.
They are not afraid of lawsuits because they pursue the truth, seek
accurate knowledge, and are competent, and therefore have nothing to fear.
You, and your agency, by contrast, are afraid of lawsuits.
It is probably a wise choice in your case.
I leave you to draw your own conclusions on this contrast, and to the
maintenence of your "estate".
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"huh?"
-Jammer, 1992
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