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Since David Weaver's death in the Pearse Resurgence last year has again
come under discussion on these lists, I'd like to make the following
points.

In no way do I want to make excuses for the accident, but you should
bear in mind that, to the best of my knowledge, there is no formal cave
diving training in New Zealand.  The few people cave diving there have
mainly come from a speleo background and are just out there doing it.

And it usually takes both a critical number of cave divers and a
critical number of deaths before a diving community gets itself
organised in setting local cave diving standards and training.  This
was certainly the case in Australia in the early 70s, leading to the
formation of the CDAA (Cave Divers Association of Australia) in 1973.

For this reason, forums like cavers and techdiver can play an important
role in rapidly disseminating information about standards and
procedures used in different countries and different cave diving
environments.

So let's keep up the quality of the information interchange.

				Greg Ryan	gregr@cs*.su*.oz*.au*

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