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phreatic@ju*.co* wrote: > > _________________________________________________________________ > Thomas Easop writes... > > >Public scrutiny??? While most of us aggree that Joe Public needs much > >more training to do recreational diving than what the mainstream > >agencies are teaching, we are going to let him 'scrutinze' these > >incidents?? What planet are you on? I saw the Space Shuttle Challenger > >explode in the sky, on TV. Did I expect to be included in the > >scrutiny? > >NASA handled it, like the should have. Not the public and not the > >media. > > I don't recall any cover-up; NASA was pretty frank about that incident. > We, as the scrutinizing public, insomuch as we could un-educatedly > scrutinize, accepted the accident as the manifestation of the risk > involved in such an endeavor. The same thing applies to plane crashes. > We get, through the media, a very detailed analysis of what is often a > boneheaded human error, yet the planes still fly, and we, the public fly > on them. [ValuJet is a case in point] When information is witheld, or > covered up, somebody has something to hide, and that is dangerous. > > So, by your logic, the shop and agencies involved should be allowed to > operate out of the public's eye, and therefore avoid accountability? Are > you kidding? This must be a troll. > > WRR First off, if there was an effective cover-up at NASA, then of course, you wouldn't recall one. Right? Second, concerning the TV media, by and large in the US, its boiled down oversimplified BS that verges on entertainment. Do you want anyone's scrutiny based on it? Third, 'the scrutinizing public' could in this case accept this accident as the manifestation of the risk involved in such an endeavor. Or they could not. Their principles and valvues would guide them. I say it should be our principles and values, not theirs. Shops and agencies should operate in the 'public eye' of divers, and to them be accountable. That is happening right here. If there is a cover up, how come divers on list know a good deal about the incident? More than TV news viewers in FL. BTW, Trolls are mythical creatures from Scandanavian fables, not Aesop's (definately not Easop's :). -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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