>Yes we think this is quite important. It may mean losing a few instructors
>but I really want a reasonable degree of fitness in both divers and
>instructors.

Tom,

In light of recent fatalities and keeping the concern in mind of keeping 
government out of diving as much as possible, do you forsee a time when 
technical diving training agencies support an overall standard 
administered by an outside agency of some sort?

If so, what shape would you expect/like such an agency/board/dictatorship 
to take and what powers would you expect it would have?

If not, why not? Do you think that circumstances as they are, given the 
variety of training groups and standards are adequate to enforce safe and 
sensible standards on the individual instructors who teach for agencies 
such as yours and elsewhere? 

Is it true that just about anyone can start up a "training agency," 
create a logo and cards and start to "certify" people for tech and cave 
diving and expect that their "trained" divers would be able to dive just 
about anywhere (with some exceptions with cave diving in FL) on those 
cards so long as it says something about Nitrox or Trimix or cave & etc. 
training on the card?

If that is so, wouldn't an unbiased umbrella organization that is devoted 
to technical scuba training regimens, polices training and standards, and 
is supported by the major players such as yourself and others make sense? 
How would such an organization come about?

Later,

JoeL
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