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To: Scaleworks@ao*.co*
Cc: dlv@ga*.ne*, jjcave@ib*.ne*, cavers@ww*.ge*.co*, GIRVINE@bl*.ne*,
techdiver@aquanaut.com, wreckdiver@wr*.co*, wwm@sa*.ne*,
brownies@ne*.ne*, kirvine@sa*.ne*
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:10:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Tragic technicaldiving
From: nssdiver@ju*.co* (Lee C Kresge)

Kevin

Right On!  Why else would the trimix page (thankyou Mr. Cobb) and Oxy
Hacker be so well received???

Lee 

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:43:23 EST Scaleworks <Scaleworks@ao*.co*> writes:
>In a message dated 98-02-27 15:41:00 EST, dlv@ga*.ne* writes:
<snip>
> Be assured that one reason they
>are not diving mix is the layered requirements of the agencies to 
>achieve full mix certification, not their undying love of being blasted
at 250' on 
>air as some suggest. You have guys in the Northeast with logbooks full
of 
>deepair dives, with nitrox and O2 deco, who cannot buy a bottle of mix
because 
>they cannot afford the $2500+ cost of certification just to get a fill.
Is 
>this what you want to perpetuate? People dive deep, certified or not,
that 
>is just the facts. Now you want to make it even more difficult for them
to 
>dive safely as you proposition requires.  It is not cheap to dive up
here, $100 to 
>step on the boat with fills, food and water for 2 dives. Who has $2500
to 
>donate to agencies to fund research for them to invent another level of 
>certification, when it could be put towards time in the water. The
agencies are 
>effectively putting trimix out of reach for the tec diver of average
income. They 
>are basically holding the diver hostage with these inflated costs and
>requirements, knowing that anyone who wants to dive deep, is aware of 
>the risks with deep air, and would prefer to dive mix. What the agencies

>are breeding is contempt for the agencies themselves, and disrespect of 
>the certification process. Just listen, you will hear it. Why spend
$2500 
>on certification when you can take a $200 mixxing course and do
yourself? 
> isn't this prevelant in Florida? 
>What you propose is in direct conflict with what you preach.
>More is not always better.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Kevin Gannon
>

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