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G'day,

I don't think we go far enough by making out that TDI is the only offender
in deep air deaths.  The deaths and near misses have involved ALL three
agencies, so while TDI may be the flavor of the moment (for deaths), lets
not forget that a lot of the so called technical guru's are tri and dual
certified.  

After all if you died on a deep air 'simulated' or 'substituted' trimix
dive it really doesn't matter which agency you were with, you are still
dead and deep air still killed you!  It also makes little difference to the
victims and the powers that be whether the agency boss is prepared to
debate the relative merits of their past or present programs.  All they
care about is that somebody died while under instruction/supervision on a
deep air dive or while diving to currently acceptable technical agency
standards (acceptable to the agency that is).  We need to hammer any and
ALL agencies that teach, require or allow deep air.  

Just think what will happen to the percentage of deaths, and flowing on
from that, the government regulations, when NAUI and PADI fully enter the
technical training market, if deep air was still considered acceptable to
the so called professionals of the industry.  We would probably be looking
at two to three deaths per incident instead of one.  

Recently we had a PADI Master Instructor involved in a near miss while on
air below 70m on the President Coolidge (Vanuatu), two others were injured
while rescuing this moron (his normal local diving never exceeds 35m), he
remarks how it was a freak incident which will probably never occur again,
we know better.  He teaches PADI Nitrox, which makes what he did even
worse/more stupid, and he will presumably teach any other upcoming
technical courses that PADI let him.  I wonder what his body count will
eventually reach? 

2.5 cents

Paul O'Malley
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