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From: "Dan Volker" <dlv@ga*.ne*>
To: <DOBSONJW@ao*.co*>
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Spirituality in tech diving / was certain death w/ Mcknulty!
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:33:50 -0400


>
>Unbelievable!  First you and the other Irvine Croonies spend months bashing
>everyone to make way for your new agency.  Then when you realize your gonna
>either get sued for libel, or worse have a fatality of your own one day,
You
>try to make nice.
>
>Don't belive it folks, and show em that there is a right way and a wrong
way
>to do things by boycotting "goo"



Dobson,
( if you'd sign your name, I'd call you by it;-)  ,


Actually, we have spent many years bashing stupidities, at least 5 or 6 on
the internet.

None of us will be sued, I have zero concern for this---anything I say is
either truth or opinion. If you want to try to sue me, go ahead, take your
best shot.  Also, I have NOTHING to do with GUE. I know some of the people
in it.  I know how it's standards will be superior to IANTD and TDI . I'm
not an instructor, and I never will be---that's not what I like about
diving. I am into tech diving, and have been since about '89.  I don't like
to see people die, particularly from  mistakes which could have been easily
prevented.  I would hope this is an area you would agree with.

GUE has been called for by frequent  deaths and too many mistakes in other
agencies. People have been asking for a WKPP type instruction for years now.
Dobson, you have your time line wrong,..... and it was the deaths and
catastrophic errors made by others that ushers in GUE.  Bashing without
these deaths and scores of accidents, would not have given rise to GUE.

GUE will never be large, and will never compete with IANTD or TDI for the
masses.

And my biggest concerns lately are regarding future deaths caused by
rebreather flaws and certain gear configurations, neither of which has
anything to do with future GUE students, since GUE will only teach use of
safe gear----this should be obvious---our concern is for people who are NOT
"Doing it Right".

Dobson, your comments are not likely to help anybody. So what is your
agenda?
Dan Volker


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