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Let me just point out that the teachings, philosphies, and practices
of "instructors" out there for these so-called "tech" agencies are the
product of the mindset that produces them.

   If that mindset is stroke gear, convoluted thinking, and "save your
own weenie stroke ass first", then that is what we can expect to see. If
one is taught fear of gas, fear of deco, and red-faced, freeflowing ,
sweat dripping hoovery, then that is what we will get.

   Here are the facts of life, or death, as it were, in the case of Jane
Orenstein: it was her first trimix dive, the "instructor" tries to take
her to 300 feet and got 272 before weenieing, she was diving new
drysuit, ridiculous bondage wings that did not work, an inflator that
did not work ( instructor obviously a real smart guy ), unmarked tanks
on either side with useless gases and she breathed the wrong one, a dive
communication device on all deco bottles ( really stupid from a task
loading a CO2 point of view), a bunch of ridiculous paraphanalic
inappropriate gear and nonsense, a stroke rig complete with stuffed hose
and other stupidity ( I am sure this was not her idea ), she has
buoyancy problems due to the crap wings , inflator, and new drysuit, she
breaths the wrong gas all the way up, she feels like she is out of gas ,
although she is not, her "instructor" can see and admits she is having
buoyancy and breathiung problems ( we are talking about a triathelete
who appears to have about a .35 SAC rate ) and responds by sending her
off on her own and not staying with her, she blacks out and or toxes and
blacks out and drops, the instructor does nothing. He is "afraid" for
his own weenie little pink ass. I do the recovery using the same size or
smaller tanks as this "instructor" ( Carmichael used aluminum 80's),
only I have 19 minutes AT THE BOTTOM and come back with 1500 PSI ( I
dove the same tanks in cave the day before and had to do a lot of work
when I found the body), then decoed out on the correct schedule and went
immediatley back with Volker , I used 400 PSI this time, and Volker used
half an 80 stage bottle , and we had to drag the body all over the place
to get it free of the rubble after we refound it again. We then came up
and decoed out in a whopping seven minutes, and pulled up the body. 

  Now you all tell me: am I right or wrong? Is there a big problem of
philosphy here and what is being taught, or am I an idiot? What do you
people think about this , and these ARE the absolute facts of the case?
Tell me what you think.

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