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Joe King <joeking@ro*.co*> wrote:
>Now I know otherwise.  Some instructors and dive teams will not accept
>people who totally fuck up, or are hopelessly out of shape, or just
>plain stupid, but I think this is really just arrogance and
>exclusiveness, and can do a lot of psychological damage.  ...

Getting oneself killed can cause a lot of psychological damage too.

This would include to oneself, to one's family and friends, to the guys
who were diving with the victim and have to wonder if they could have
saved him, to the instructor who has to wonder if he should have signed
his card, to the team that recovers the body (two of my buddies, one of
them female and too young to vote, pulled a body off the Marsh out in
Kingston last summer), ad infinitum.

I'll stick to diving with people who are at least trying to do it right.

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Anthony DeBoer                                  http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/
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