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Tom, I was already certified when I was in your office with you and Billy Deans - my TDI certification had nothing to do with what we were working on at that time, the Halcyon rebreather training program. Jack and Bill were outside looking at your compressor system. I listened to you , you gave me a list of things, and said you would get back. You did, and that was that. As you recall, the only bone of contention was that I did not sit for the PADI IE, as I could not remember what those morons wanted to hear in place of the truth. I did do all of the rest of the course, and I traded that series of courses for a dive ladder from my dad's boatyard for the boat owned by the Course Director, so in fact, I had actually done everything you asked already. The runaround came later when you guys started getting nervous about what the other instructors would say, in terms of me being a competitor to them. I assured all of you tht my intentions were and are only to accomodate Robert and Jack with a local Halcyon instructor, and to train my own guys on the unit. I do not certify my divers at WKPP, I only train them - that is all that I promise in my permits. As you can see, and as you know, they are actually ceritfied by you, Armentrout, Jarrod, Berman, Pat, Tyler, Larry, and I think we even have a few Tony Satterfield certifications. I am acutally ANDI certified myself for nitrox, TDI for mix, and IANTD for rebreather and the supervisory certifications. I also have all levels of CMAS, and about ten PADI certifications, the first one coming fifteen years after I started diving. Since I actually learned this myself, I should be self-certified, right? Gavin taugh me the fine points, just like I teach my guys - maybe some of these new guys can call Bill Gavin and tell him he is not qualified to teach trimix or rebreather? As you and Billy know, you have both done more trimix dives with me than any of your other instructors, and you both remember that Billy and I jointly had tables made many years ago. I used Billy's safety standards, and Hamilton's or Gavin's or Shell Oil's oxygen limit stuff. We all know how all of this evolved, as we were all working together on it, and you were right in the middle of it with us from the beginning. Parker wanted me to do this, and as Gavin said, "conceivebly , you and I could not be allowed to trimix dive if the regulation sets in. The petty silliness of all of this is overwhelming. We all know who does this best. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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