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> technical instructors will kill you as sure as putting a cheap 9mm to your
> head and pulling the trigger. 

Tha fallacy in this argument is that if you don't stick your head out
they can't shoot you.

To put it another way, I won't be on a dive where an instructor can
"kill" me.  I won't be so far over-extended that the instructor is
worth that much more to my dive plan than a simple "buddy".

So it might be possible to say my buddy was unable or unwilling
to save me, but it will have little to do with whether there is
any training going on with the dive.

I find it much simpler to protect my own ass rather than to
ferret out every instructor who may not be stellar.  Its a lot
more gratifying to start a jihad, but its a job that will 
never be complete.  In the meantime, hell I'll just be diving, 
prepared to survive an encounter no matter how poor the instructor.

And I'm not trying to be selfish, I share the advice freely.
Cover your own ass.  Its the best protection against anything, bad
instructors included.  You'd be suprised how hard it is to "kill"
someone when they don't make it easy for you.

Mike
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