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>What I want to see is either one new agency, or one of the existing agencies
>(IANTD), create a much more stringent proceedure to get certified to tech
>level. Making it more exhausitive, with better control of who is teaching
>for them, will save lives, and prevent the mass marketing of a sport that
>would never be safe for mass marketing, any more than Formula One racing
>would ever be safe if it were somehow opened up to everyone ( or if you
>don't like this example, then how about as unsafe as if any American, could
>accompany a SEAL Team on dangerous covert assignments----there would be some
>Americans who are not SEALs, who could live through this, but NOT a great
>number). Taking this another step, ....Do you have a "Right" to be a
>SEAL???? Maybe you do if you can pass the mental and physical
>standards....if you can't , clearly the answer is NO!
>
>There is no way you are going to lose the present ease of tech certification
>, from at least one agency---and there should always be a freemarket driven
>niche for the low level agency who will certify anyone for tech. There may
>always be obese, pot smoking, lazy slobs who have Brett Gilliam posters
>hanging by their sofa, so they can toast him to their next 6 pack of beer.
>I see this as sad, but very true .... But you better hope they don't have so
>many accidents that they bring Federal regulation on us.
NOW I understand, Volker.
You're a kind, caring, compasionate, new-age kind of guy who's heart
breaks every time an untrained diver looses his life.
Sorry, I didn't realize I was talking with an REI Berkenstock type, I
never would have bothered.
Get over it.
We're going to loose some. Live with it.
There's nothing you, we, or they can do about it.
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"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you
want to live forever?"
-First Sergeant Dan Daly, 1918
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