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George,

The other issue here is the qualifications required to become a
"trained" instructor.  As Bill said in his post, this was all due to
problems that happen in open water training.

Shaun


George M. Irvine III wrote:
> 
> I just spoke to the Jackson County Sheriff and went over the report of
> the DEEP AIR TRAINING DEATH by a TDI instructor at Lake Wazee ,
> Wisconsin. Here are the facts:
> 
>  This was a training dive. The Sheriff has the TDI training forms filled
> out. There was one instructor for three students. NO MIXED gas was used
> - they were diving AIR. The divers' computers showed 191 feet of depth.
> The victim had a problem at depth, and the instructor inflated his bc
> and shot him to the surface BY HIMSELF - how stupid are these guys? They
> then DECOMCPRESSED instead of helping the victim - what is going on out
> there? How stupid is TDI? How unqualified and stupid can an instructor
> possibly be ? How negligent can these guys possibly get?
>
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