On Tue, 27 May 1997, Jeff Carson wrote:

> >To: David Grahame Drew <dgd02@uo*.ed*.au*>
> >From: jhcarson@ma*.ne* (Jeff Carson)
> >Subject: Re: Twin Tanks
> >
> >NO DEEP AIR, NO DEEP AIR, NO DEEP AIR, NO DEEP AIR!!  how fucking stupid
could you possibly be all at one time.  deep on air is the reverse of " be all
you can be"  stay out of dive shops that will teach you deep air.  Deep On Air
= Dead On Arrival!!!  just say no!!  
> >
> >
Now wait a minute.  I realize that I'm new to this list of 
ego-narced emailers, but really.  I took a "deep air" course,
and while I had lots of prior experience doing deep air well
beyond the 170 fsw limit of the course (like twice as far beyond),
I found it interesting.  Not interesting as a deep air training
course - that part was pedantic - but interesting because it introduced
me to diving with doubles, proper technical equipment, "solo-psychology" 
(aka self-reliant) diving, and just how stupid it is to do really deep air.

Quite frankly, IMVHO, the real dangers of deep air are not really experienced
at the 160-170fsw depths of the course, and the transferred psychology
of responsible diving is the real take-away - definitely "de-machofying"
the deep-air experience, while instilling the desire for further 
technical training.  I freely admit the agencies are out to make a buck,
but I personally walked away with a much deeper sense of responsibility
than I entered with, which eventually led me to more specialized training.

Granted, this may very well have been the bias of my highly experienced
instructor, but I suspect that most instructors have the same level
of integrity and sense of responsibility as mine.

-Will
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