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CaptnDale wrote, while describing a near miss: >>I am quite familiar with the DIR rig. In fact, it is my preferred >>configuration. I am certainly not arguing against the DIR system. It is >>probably the best configuration for technical diving yet devised. I just do >>not think Novice Open Water Divers should be indroctinated into something that >>they are not trained for, not ready for and do not understand. It is quite >>obvious that these divers only got part of the story - they need someone to >>lead them through the rest of it not just feed them half the story, sell them >>the a bunch of expensive equipment and let them go out and kill themselves. E. J. Sadler replied: >Yet, being quite familar with a DIR rig, YOU let them jump into Lake >Michigan mis-configured, over-weighted and not understanding the system. Stupid question for CaptnDale: How come you didn't offer the use of your training facility to sort the rig out, and decline to book them on your boat until they'd done some confined water work? -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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