Chris - you have hit the real problem here. Add to that the issue of
people who have been diving a long time who try to bring old sillinesss
into new situations.


Chris Hellas wrote:

>       The reality of the situation is that the number of instructors has
> kept pace with the expansion of 'technical diving'  - the quality has
> not. The whole thing mirrors recreational diving, except the potential
> to kill somebody in a recreational diving environment is not as great.
> 
> There is always a wailing and gnashing of teeth about 'we have
> standards' or 'the quality assurance programme prevents...'. Folks get
> all uncomfortable when the true facts are revealed about accidents -
> death's or near misses.
> 
> You could maybe start a list of supposed (or even validated) causes of
> fatalities. There will be causes that come up time after time after
> time. Formalising the 'what not to do list' should be fairly easy......
> 
> Anybody wanna start........
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Chris Hellas         e-mail - chris@de*.de*.co*.uk*
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