I believe that if we the diving and instructor community inform and 
pressure our respective agencies, then they will act or big brother (The 
Fed's or States) will start to regulate us. That will be the beginning of 
the end. I can see OSHA standard for commerce diving pushing our way. There 
is already history there and we are current grandfather clause away from 
it.

Beware Tech/Cave diving community.

David

-----Original Message-----
From:	AquaLad@ix*.ne*.co* [SMTP:AquaLad@ix*.ne*.co*]
Sent:	Sunday, May 10, 1998 12:53 AM
To:	dwiden@in*.ne*
Cc:	Technical Diver Mailing List Server; Caver's Mailing List
Subject:	Re: IANTD, TDI, you, & a soap box!

[snip]  David Widen wrote:
>
> If you are going to create this list, what is going to be the criteria, 
who
> will judge, who is qualified to judge.
>
>You need the cert agencies talking, agree on a national to international 
standard or
> establish an ANSI, then have the instructors meet it.

Dave,

Excellent point! I certainly don't want to do the list but I think you
are right when you say that the agencies should organize an
international standard, but we all know that will never happen. First
off there is no governmental agencie to oversee, next the orgs. don't
want to share their welth.



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