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J.T. Barker wrote: > Capt. Gerry > This is one post that I think most(if not all)Captains will agree with,also > I would like to add when you leave the boat you are on your own.But as > being divers ourself we cannot allow a person to leave the boat unless we > beleive he can do the dive.This doesnot mean we are scuba/tech police Then what does it mean? You're trying to hinder someone from diving. What you believe is utterly irrelevant - if you felt that the diver was not adequately trained, you should not have taken him onboard! Naturally you don't want to see people hurt, and since you yourself is a diver you know what dangers lurks below. But it's non sequitur, besides the point. > .It is > up to the diver to get the training and skills before he gets to us or be > under instructor care.There are always divers that seem to slip through the > cracks and gets a card that he should not have,this makes our job even > harder. Your job is not to ensure that people are adequately trained; your job is get divers to a destination and support them. One could argue that your job is to make sure that poorly trained divers don't use your boat, though. > That card and false log book are sometimes all we have to go by. And it should be enough. > The bottom line is, our job is to get a diver to and from the dive site and > should a diver injure theirself we are trained in first aid,cpr,and should > be trained in Oxygen first aid for dive accidents. > Capt.J.T. Yup. Agree. It's a shame that everyone is so concerned about liability. Maybe your justice system needs to be changed to avoid ridiculous suits. Adding a little law requiring the loser to pay a good amount of the trial cost would take care of the worst suits. It appears to me as if a minority of Americans *insist* on having personal freedom *without* having personal responsibility, to the grief of the rest of the people. Get me out, get me home and some ordinary first aid treatment/radio call for help is all I require. It'd be ridiculous to hold the captain responsible for a risk I've chosen to accept. <snip rest> -- Claus Lisberg, Founder of PSWEH (Poor Students With Expensive Hobbies) Nirfur prophet #1, a.a atheist #1116 "A casual stroll through an asylum will show that faith proves nothing." - F. Nietzsche -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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