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Good post, Bill. Your points are well made.
One of the most disturbing things I have consistently observed in our
sport is a general reluctance to tell someone when they are doing
something wrong, dangerous or whatever. Dangerous and sometimes
potentially deadly practices are muttered about but not addressed at the
time of occurrence. Typically, the dilemma is how to handle it without
offending anyone.
Keeping quiet to be polite is far more offensive than verbalizing the
truth at the moment. To quote someones previous post "there's nothing
polite about death".
Given the WPB tragedy, it behooves all participants in this sport to
take heed and ponder whether or not it is kinder to be offended by an
unwanted correction or dead because someone was polite. While I am by no
means advocating hostile or improper behavior, I am advocating that we
TELL someone that what they are doing is improper if we know it to be
so.
Perhaps if enough people had been vocal about the alleged misdoings in
the WPB area, the three divers would be alive today.
If in fact it was standard practice to do a deep drift dive with no
float ball, and enough people were verbal about it, the operators might
have changed there methods for fear of losing business. Or worse yet,
MAYBE THEY REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS OK TO DO and a few vocal patrons might
have educated them.
We need to make changes before they are made for us by forces we will be
unable to control.
Joe C.
Bill Mee wrote:
>
> Predictably, we are now beginning to observe the inevitable fallout from
> the single worst technical diving accident, ever. Independently, one of
> the largest gas suppliers in the Southeast, Tri-Gas, has reported that
> they are considering a total ban on the sale of Helium and other gases
> for the purpose of diving.
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> I hope that the consequences of this policy are not lost on our friends
> in the technical diving instructional community.
>
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> It would be unfair to place all of the blame on the folks at Divers
> Supply for this unhappy turn of events in that the sort of "former"
> behaviors tolerated at their operation are pandemic throughout technical
> diving. It was just a matter of time before a similar event transpired
> somewhere else.
>
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