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> >Fallacy. It will never happen. > >I would expect any attorney worth any fee to know why, and I was >beginning to think you were an attorney. > >I guess not. Please, complete my legal education. We already have access to fewer sites in cave diving than we used to, and some sites have significantly restricted access. From a purely legal standpoint, perhaps you are right...but from a public policy standpoint, the redeeming qualities of a sport like advanced technical diving are limited. I would never postulate that it will become truly illegal, or that standards will be legally imposed upon the industry in that way, but I think that if the current trend continues, without some sort of response on the part of the industry/agencies, more and more companies that supply gas, etc. will, perhaps due to misconceptions, be increasingly reluctant to supply divers. Were I in a position to advise, say, a gas supplier in South Florida(whose actual liability would be fairly tenuous) on the possibility of diversifying into the technical diving field, I think I would be hesitant to support such a move, given the extremely limited scope of the market, and its high potential for liability concerns. Why risk it? I don't think that these misconceptions/inaccurate perceptions are correct, and I agree that there are operators out there who, by virtue of their knowledge and experience are comfortable in their accuracy in risk-liability-assessment. Also look at the groups that are able to carry on an extreme level of diving with minimal incident...like the WKPP; they have shown from both a track-record and a policy standpoint that they can and do minimize potential risk and liability, and in doing so in a professional manner, are afforded access that your average diver is not. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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