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On 8/6/98 12:26, Scott Landon, js_landon@ho*.co* posted:
>ANY open water trip will require that you show you pretinent
>certification cards and a logbook. if they believe you to be unsafe or
>unprepared, they will make you dive with a divemaster or do a pool check
>out dive first. why is the whole technical diving community any
>different?
The Twin Sister, Little Cayman Beach Resort, Little Cayman
The Topline, Sunshine Coast Tours, British Columbia (Best boat in the
world)
The Rendezvous, Barkley Sound, British Columbia
The Vision, Santa Barbara, California
The Hurst Isle, Port Hardy, British Columbia
Those are the first five boats I can think of, none of them have ever
asked for either a cert card or a logbook.
Maybe it's a warm water thing.
*DOH*! No, wait, Little Cayman is warm water...
Well, maybe it's a Florida thing.
Perhaps because cert cards and logbooks don't mean anything, or perhaps
because these boats understand where the responsibility lies. (With the
diver, of course.)
You're right about one thing, though, why should tech diving be any
different?
What is different about tech diving that shifts the responsibility from
the diver to the Captain, or (god forbid) the DM?
There's no way I'll ever listen to a DM, most of them don't have the
knowledge neccessary to set up my gear, let alone make a decision about
how my dives are going to go.
Responsibility to the diver. All of it. What's so hard to understand
about that?
"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you want to live forever?"
-First Sergeant Dan Daley
"Who wants to live forever?"
-Freddie Mercury
"I swear, I'm going to live forever"
-Jon Bon Jovi
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