It must be that the difference is that you teach fools with money to burn,
that might have a GED to go with their autoworker pension, but still can't
figure out a ppO2 or remix pressure or pressure to volume conversion
without a TDI or IANTD table (for only 24.95 per mix! or something like
that). 

95% of the content of any gas course I learned in high school physics,
then again in PHY 3048 and PHY 3049, college physics.

What's the matter? Afraid you won't be able to make the next mortgage
payment? Go to the CDS for sympathy, not me.

I'll always trust someone more who isn't driven by the dollar. Instructor,
administrator, or boat captain.

Drew
Send Flames to TDI or IANTD...someone there might give a damn 

On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Ocean Diving Inc. wrote:

> Listen up people,
> If you think diving at the technical level can be learned by simply taking a
single course that covers all, then you must of skipped middle school and the
high school stuff and went straight to the college of fools. This list is full
of strokes and posts by jerks that insist that there is too many programs
offered by too many agencies.
> Go ahead and start up an Agency so you can teach a faster, less demanding and
less risky program so that the student never learns a damn thing about narcosis
management and is just plain stupid about the relationship between po2 levels
and time of exposure at various work loads, the use of full face mask for in
water deco, and I could go on but why.
> At least IANTD was the first to offer the world a means by which a diver
could select a road to follow, a way to learn and experience what it takes to
dive beyond the ordinary recreational format. Respect for safety is not
forsaken but drilled into each and every stress management skill until reaction
to life threatening situations are instinctive and effective. It's about
preferences. You the diver decide how much training you need. Don't think for a
minute that I don't see so called "Extended Range" divers that simply dive
their bleeping computers into a state of total lock up and are afraid to
surface because they haven't got a clue how long they were down, how deep they
were, what mix they're getting low on at the time, how much deco they have
already completed, (you get the idea).
> When they climb out 30 minutes to an hour after the well trained divers that
used an accelerated table all they say is "sorry". I think of that as a
character reference that I would rather see expressed as Dork or Stroke.
> There is no substitute for the pathways of training that provide the
necessary steps to enable a diver to enjoy and respect diving in deeper and
more demanding situations.
> Semper Deep,
> Capt. Jim Mims
> IANTD/ BOA 
> www.oceandiving.com 
> 

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