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Tom, you can yip yap all you want - we just pulled an IANTD student off the bottom , DEAD. End of story. Do something about it. Tom Mount wrote: > > To George > First of all IANTD has not made any statements about WKPP in any medium. To > my knowledge there is no Rivalry between IANTD and WKPP, why would there be > we are a training agency WKPP is an exploration team? > > Derrick apparently has said something about you or WKPP that is based on his > opinion. Derrick has a right to his opinion, and based on comments about him > by George and others I imagines he feels he has a good reason for speaking > out but he is not a spokesman for IANTD. > > Now as you know I do not have the liberty of discussing this accident on a > public forum. > > I will explain that IANTD does have stringent standards to become an > instructor at any level. For those of you wishing to check these standards > you may do so at the IANTD web site > > http//www.IANTD.com > > The same standards spell out the requirements for various diver levels; > quite often these courses are taught as combination programs as allowed in > the standards provided the diver has met all the qualifications. > If you compare these standards from basic OW to Trimix diver you will > discover they are about the most demanding and rigid standards to be found. > > I and IANTD have spent countless hours developing programs to make diving > safer. These programs are always evolving and developing. Our total > concentration is on dive safety and the standards we have do reflect that. > > IANTD also has a quality control program. Within this program there are > mechanisms for dealing with standards violations, ethics violations and > accidents. Most of these are an automatic response and in the event of > diving accidents begin with a stated procedure from the IANTD QA manual and > a comprehensive investigation. > This includes obtaining all information pertinent to the accident, > statements from > Students > Other divers on the dive > A QA form being sent to all former students of the instructor. > Determinations by the ME, > Reports form the recovery team, > Reports from the diving vessel > Review of the training program conducted to the date of the accident, > Statements from other sources who are aware of the diving instructor and > his/her practices > Statements from others who are familiar with the capabilities of the > accident victim > > These include people who have dived with or observed the instructor and > student during training. > > Once all this information is compiled the data is sent to a QA board > consisting of members of the IANTD international BOA. Most of these people > will not even know a given instructor and will be totally impartial in > reviewing all of the data. > > Based on their(BOA) determinations one of the following will take place. > These actions are for the overall protection of the instructor; the public > and IANTD while ensuring fair and just due process will evolve: > > First immediate step: Limited teaching status (the instructor is allowed to > teach with another instructor while under investigation). > Events following an investigation > > 1. If it is found that the instructor is not at fault in the accident in any > way whatsoever then the limited teaching status will be removed and the > instructor will go back on normal teaching status. > Note! Most agencies simply send out a letter to the instructor informing > them that the accident is under investigation and take no additional action > at that time. Again IANTD has a more stringent program > > 2. If the BOA determines that the events are questionable but not directly > controllable or preventable by the instructor The instructor will be placed > on provisional or restricted statues and the BOA will spell out specific > procedures to be adhered to in order to be reinstated to normal teaching > status. > > 3. If the BOA finds that the instructor did not act responsibility the > instructor may be suspended with the ability to request an appeal to the > BOA. A suspended instructor may or may not be given a provision for > reinstatement following one year of suspension again as determined by the > BOA based on its finding of all the facts. > > 4. The BOA may find cause for expulsion from instructor and membership > status within IANTD > > This is all I can comment on and it is the procedures IANTD follows in this > type of event as spelled out in our QA manual. > > At least all of you now know the actions IANTD takes when there is an > accident . These procedures were developed by numerous members of IANTD > internationally and within the legal constraints recommended by our counsel. > Again we believe they are stricter than other agencies in recreational and > technical diving and at the same time that they will provide a more factual > review of an accident, possible means of preventing future accidents and > will be fair to all parties involved. > > The decision to do any of the above will be that of due process by impartial > peers. > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: katherine Irvine <kirvine@sa*.ne*> > To: cavers@ca*.co* <cavers@ca*.co*> > Cc: techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 9:02 PM > Subject: IANTD criticzing teh WKPP in Sun Sentinel > > >Get a load of this: after I went out and recovered the body of a girl > >killed during an IANTD trimix class run by Derek McNulty off of the Reef > >Cat, Mc Nulty gets in the Sun Sentinel and CRITICIZES the WKPP,saying > >there is a "rivalry" between the WKPP and IANTD, and that the WKPP > >methods are "unorthodox". > > > > Who is this comeplete nobody stroke to be saying something like this > >after he just killed a student and WKPP had to do the recovery? > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. 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