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Following what has been going back and forth for a while now regarging tech certification and standards. One huge point is that there are no laws governing this sort of thing. yes you can raise the standards but there may be the guy who goes out and fails and then goes and dives anyway. After all what is a c card really a piece of plastic that says you completed some kind of formal training. its not a licence or required by law. the people that want to seek out this kind of training and invest the kind of $$into the training sould make sure that they can pass it. As far as raisine the physical standards well there are standards for a reason and lets face it no body is superman. if you can pass the physical side of it (no matter what the standards) you may be dumb as a post or have a attitude that will kill you. There was one post from an instructor that seet his own standards for his students above and beyond what his training agency set. This is wrong. teach to the standards. why should your students fail because they can't p[ass the standards you set but they passed the standards the agency set. this is extremely biased. If you don't like the standards that yout training agency sets then find an agency that has some you find acceptable. None out there don't teach. at least until there is a agencey that meets youre personal standards. Odd that there are lots of people fine with the standards. Lets face it you can't please all of the people all of the time. the people that can't cut it should use better judgement. diving is a life risking sport and those that do it recognoze this fact and make a choise to do it every time they hit the water. you will never be able to screen all of the people that die underwater nor be able to prevent them from getting killed. you put a whole bunch of supermen in the water and eventually the envelope gets pushed farther than it was before and hey they arn't fit to dive and we need higher standards once again. One thing that is probably one of the most important thing that should be taught is the ability to recognize and dive within ones limits. this would be much more valuable than raising the lenght a person can swim in a certain amount of time. STEVE ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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