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> The whole premise of ideas like the Hog. Rig (and several other major > religions) is that someone has had the good ideas already and now we can > adopt it ourselves with full faith that it has been thought through by > greater minds than ours so we don't have to worry about it. Hey, if we get > into trouble we pull out our long hose and say several hail Georges and it > will be ok. > > Guy Guy, I don't know where on earth you got this idea... you couldn't possibly be farther from the truth. To a man, each Hogarthian diver I've met is able to explain in great detail exactly why they configure their gear as they do. This analysis is an absolutely critical part of the picture, and for you to suggest otherwise is a clear indication that you simply do not understand what "Hogarthian" is. Time and again Hogarthian divers have requested that proponents of other gear configurations explain their rationale, and the silence is deafening. Nevertheless, once again for the record, if you've got a better approach let's hear about it! In the absense of superior ideas, it's not unusual for divers to emotionally defend their "right" to configure their gear as they wish. This is a smokescreen -- one thing has nothing to do with the other. I can't and won't force you to stop acting like a moron. However, I can point out that you are acting like a moron, suggest you stop, refuse to dive with you until you stop, and discourage others from following your example. That's all that's going on. I agree with most of what Mike Zimmerman has said in this thread. To elaborate, I am absolutely opposed to some government agency telling me how to configure my gear, but I see no problem with a private agency saying "this is the way we teach our students how to configure gear, these are the reasons we do so, and if you don't agree then we're not the right training agency for you". If I don't agree, I'll go to another agency or to none at all. I *want* my training agencies to take a stand. I want them to feel free to say that there are some extraordinarily stupid gear configurations in use, that people are dying for no damn reason, that it doesn't have to be that way, and that they are willing to step up to the plate and teach the right way. A training agency's refusal to participate in this carnage would not hinder anyone's "rights" whatsoever, it would simply improve the quality of that agency's training. (BTW, substitute fitness requirements for gear configuration, and this is all still true.) - Todd -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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