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Alan Wright wrote: >My contact with the CDG has been varied. Some won't entertain the idea >of a none dry-caving experienced diver getting involved, ie they won't >provide training. The argument being that it is unsafe to take open >water divers into that environment. I would say this attitude is out of date for many sites. On the other hand, there are lots of places which bear precious little relation to open water diving --- they're basically caving underwater. I significant part of the reason for the policy (and it is still officially group policy) is that it controls the numbers and committment of UK cave divers --- the group has an excellent safety record, and would like to keep it that way. "Training" in the CDG is also a vague concept --- when I look back on mine, it seems to mainly consist of me diving easyish sumps either on my own, or with another trainee, and sometimes a qualified diver around somewhere (rarely in visual range) who'd make sarcastic remarks about my line laying and what I'd done to the vis. (there was also, of course, the dreaded part II test :-) Dr. Neal Harman Department of Computer Science University College of Swansea Singleton Park Swansea SA2 8PP TEL: +44 792 295394 FAX: +44 792 295708
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