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> > No Al, you refuse to realize where my solutions lead... when each > > person spends more time focusing on what they can do to protect > > themselves, then less people get hurt. What a horrible goal. > > Do you disagree with that Al? > > So what hapens to the person who, while focusing on protecting themsleves, > goes to a sub standard instructor ?? Isnt that the mantra chanted over and > over in open water classes every where, "before you do XYZ, get trained" ?? You forgot to say Al, do you disagree with preparing oneself for class? do you disagree with reading up on the web how to rig a stage and practice this in the comfort of your own shallow quarry? do you disagree with tying a deco bottle to a buoy line in that same quarry? don't you think its better to learn these things in 30' of water rather than off the deck of a boat in 200' of water with current over a wreck you've never seen before? > You seem to think each and every diver will learn each and every thing there > is to know prior to getting training. If this were true why get trained at > all? Frankly Al, I mostly do it to see what I might have missed in my own self-tutlage and to get the bloody card so people won't try to stop me from doing what I know how to do. Did I cave dive before I got instruction? No. but I learned to use my doubles in the quarry. I learn to run reel in the quarry. My team pracitced out of air drills, blind, off the line, etc in the quarry. You could have then tossed one of the worst instructors on earth at us and our odds of living would have been infinitely better than the paradigm you espouse where I should offer myself vulnerable and unprepared on the altar of instruction. And given you low publicly expressed opinion of me Al, if I can do these things, just about anyone can. And no matter what you say about that, it'll be a cold day in hell before any instructor is able to "kill" me (using your paradigm). But feel free to keep offering yourself up as victim. I'd rather invest a little time in my skills. Mike -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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