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Greg,

We really do have people that are not experienced technical divers.
Naturally, they don't start out doing technical dives.
We have had open water divers help with single tanks and jacket BCs.
Naturally, they are not allowed in the cave or in the cavern.
Divers do have to have formal cave training in addition to our
apprenticeship.
However, in a place like Wakulla open water divers are are to help
out in the basin. Here they are exposed to divers at all levels and
learn the rational behind all gear and procedure choices.

I started out carrying tanks to the water. Later I dove as a safety
diver and also as a support diver. I'm still a support diver when I'm
not part of an exploration team except that now I ferry stages and
safety bottles into the cave rather than simply caching deco bottles
at their base depths.

I should also point out that not only do we have people that are not
technical divers, we have people are do not dive at all or whose
primary contribution is not in the form of diving. The WKPP has people
such as scientists that contribute other talents. We also have a
great guy like Mike Wisenbaker to cover publicity. Mike has done
a phenominal job in getting several article pulished in the last few
weeks.


-John

 
> John Rose,
> Sounds like a good approach.  
> John Strohm however was comparing beginning techdiver accidents to WKPP
> divers.  Do you really have people diving at Wakulla who did not start
> out as experienced technical divers?
> Greg Kuiper
> 

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