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Tom, I have just heard from Alan Pelstring----the dead girl's boyfriend, that Derick McNulty is still teaching, and that he had students over the weekend. So, are we to understand, that after the "exhaustive investigation" you have most certainly completed by now, you have determined that Derrick did NOTHING wrong????? Tom, is it IANTD "Standard Operating Procedure", for instructors to " NOT PURSUE" , a sinking student? Derick has now stated to the investigators that he felt his life would be in jeopardy if he was to attempt to descend after Jane. As you know, this was with less than 13 minutes bottom time , and with close to 2/3 of his back gas left. So again, "Should an IANTD instructor, who is "buddied" to his student, NOT PURSUE this student, should the student begin a descent which clearly represented the student was in an emergency situation" ???? Is it IANTD policy to tell a class of your students, that it is, "everyman for himself, and if you have an emergency, your on your own, because if I have to help you, it could jeopardize my own life"...???? Tom, you don't have to answer about Derrick---just answer this in general terms. What is an acceptable level of safety protocol for an instructor to set up for a dive??? And if a 300 foot dive is so life threatening, that an instructor has to brief the students that if they have a problem, no one else will be able to help them, due to the strong likelihood of a multiple death tragedy, would this not indicate an UNACCEPTABLE level of risk for the dive in question??? Would this not be reckless disregard for human life, to bring students into a situation so extreme, that they can expect no help from their instructor, should they experience a problem?? Would this not be a potential _suicide_ dive??? Please Tom, What is your SOP in these matters. And if you would "like" to call Derrick negligent in his actions, it would certainly go a long way toward convincing a great many people on this list, that you actually care more about human life, than about protecting a potentially dangerous IANTD instructor. Don't think for a second that huge numbers of divers are not questioning Tom Mount's ethics right now.....No one has heard you condemn Derrick, for actions which are clear to everyone else on this list, as negligent. If you want to be the only one who wants to stand there and say that Derrick was performing his duty properly, I think most will agree that this position by you will tell the world a great deal about IANTD----and they won't like what they just heard. And as Alan Pelstring just told me that Derrick has had a grand total of 9 months from being an open water diver, to becoming an instructor trainer---you might want to comment as to whether this is true---and if so, HOW is it possible for IANTD to crank out an instructor trainer so fast???? Tom, you can't claim to be investigating STILL....All the facts are in. The Medical Examiner is done, statements have been taken, and you certainly have read everything by now. So far you have ignored my posts to you----I'll assume you did not like my tone, so you chose not to answer me. Sorry Tom, I felt this girl was murdered by Derrick. This belief would make most people with any shred of moral decency, pretty upset. Would I have been right to call you an accomplice to this murder ---- probably this would have been an unfair characterization of you, particularly since I know that if you had been the instructor, you would have gone down after her, and you would have saved Jane's life. George Believes this, as to Robert, Bill, Errol and myself. So we know how the top guy at IANTD would have handled this situation. We know how a 9 month IANTD wonder named Derrick handled this. There is NO continuity here. Either he teaches like you , or he doesn't, and it looks to us like he does NOT. So how about admitting that Derrick did not perform his job the way an IANTD instructor is supposed to. How about becoming part of a solution here, by preventing more students from death, at the hands of an instructor who is incapable of acting as you would require him to act. Do you want people to see IANTD as a reflection of Tom Mount, or as the agency of cowardice. How about a decision. And how about answering this post---I'm not likely to go away. Show me you have the balls to tell the truth here----or has martial arts training to "5th dan" only taught you how to " run and hide today--live and run another day ( the credo Derrick obviously goes by, but hopefully you do not...). Dan Volker -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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