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On Wed, 20 Jul 1994, Terry McCracken wrote: > Nobody has yet taken a crack at the second half of my question.. If > these technics, as described by several people, are being used. Why are we > still hearing about deaths caused by this problem. Carl wrote: >*Nothing* anyone does will make these units absolutely 100% safe... >...I amadvocating *individual responsibility for your actions* - something >that seems to have fallen by the wayside in this litigous society. One of the aspects that I like about technical diving is that it demands performance. Technical diving is remarkably unforgiving. Configuring equipment this way or that will not prevent 100% of accidents, it will make errors harder to commit. Jumbo jets with triple-redundant flight directors (autopilots) still crash due to pilot error. The pilots are better trained and more proficient at what they do than most technical divers are at technical diving and they (the flightcrews) still make fatal errors. Until we have ROV's doing all our diving for us, people will still make errors and some people will die. This is not to say that efforts to improve techincal diving should stop, no, onwards and downwards! dan@sh*.ne* mig@shadow.net "Jimmy Carter is no longer our worst president."
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