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Dennis pierce wrote:

> [... in response to Neal Harman and Richard Pyle ...]
>
> in my opinion both you guys are very irresponsible to even 
> bring this sort of line up ...

I wasn't going to get involved with this but it's been a long week
and I'm not able to dive this weekend so I would just like to
violently disagree with a couple of points.

I see nothing irresponsible in discussing any topic. You just have
to pick the appropriate forum. And this is the appropriate forum
for technical diving on the net. If you want to see inappropriate
say "solo diving" on rec.scuba.

> > Please remember, this is not advice I give to everyone - I'm only speaking
> > for myself.
> > 
> 
> in my opinion if you're not giving advice, you should'nt be posting it,
> since putting it "out there" is sort of telling everyone it's ok...

Garbage. In that case all but one person may as well log off this list.
You can remain by virtue of your own statement: "if you're not giving
advice, you should'nt be posting it". So if you practice what you
preach then everything you post is advice. It would certainly stop me
posting because I'll never be qualified to give advice.

> and in your position doesn't anything you say have the potiental of being
> construed as advice...

What position? In here he's just one of several dozen people expressing
personal opinions on advanced diving. If you attach more credance to
what one person says that is up to you. Don't assume everyone else does
the same. In fact you'll probably find that those people on the list
who are new to technical diving have never even heard of him.

> maybe i'm a bit over cautious... but you try training people to do this
> sort of diving and see if you don't agree with me..  :)  and in a way
> some of you are doing just that by posting to this list.. i wonder if
> there are any liability issues there... *yikes*..

It must be such pain in the backside to live in the US :-)

Alan

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