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Sean, I too have seen the morons do dives on the Hydro. There are 7th and 8th generation tech instructors all over the place. But they are far from Serious players. One simple way to stop the madness is to ask that goober before he jumps in the ocean on that free drifting dive with a spear gun in his hand. "Why are you doing this?" Just let them defend their position. And questions like. "So your gonna do what a 20 minute dive, that's a good time on this wreck." Lead by example. It takes time. Everyone was a stroke at one time or another. One has to be its part of the evolution. I trained a wonderful gal in a wreck diving course about 3 years ago. She was giventhe list of gear, and she took her Amex card and got exactly what she needed. We spent a good part of a full day getting her rigged up and she was doing it. After the wrefk diving she went down to Florida and took some cave training - she fell in love with the caves quicky because she was geared up right to begin with. However over a few months she said "my gear was next to perfect but I need to try out what does not work so I know why this is the "best" way to do it." This was an interesting approach but at least she decided to do that testing on benign shallow dives. She truly understood the concept of evolution. As to the strokedom of your instructors down there. I am sure we can get you a list of quality instructors who you can turn people on to. The list is pretty short, but I am sure they can all take in one or two more students a week to their next class. enjoy Joel Silverstein http://www.nitroxdiver.com At 03:55 PM 1/6/1999 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 1/6/99 3:41:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, >joelsilverstein@wo*.at*.ne* writes: > >> I seriously doubt if any "new" guys are really that protected from >> accessing information > >I would have to disagree with that...there are some folks, either due to lack >of information (computer primarily), hanging out with others who lack info, >what ever....just do not know about the advances made in tech gear and >procedures. > >I did a "tech" dive last week, the wreck of the Hydro-Atantic (178'). There >was a guy on the boat, 3 computers, 80/20, no long hose, planning to dive solo >with a SNORKEL on...there is no way that this guy could have known anything >about DIR/Hogatrhianism, or just figured that the personal preference shit was >the way to go, the more stuff the better. > >This guy couldn't even do a 20' deco hang without kicking me and my buddy at >LEAST 3 times before we just kept a good distance from him. I'm sure given >the chance he would have adopted a better set-up etc, but may just not have >known about it. > >There are some SERIOUS strokes teaching "tech" in my area, I see them on the >boats when I go, and I just kinda cringe waiting for the next accident. > >Sean > Joel Silverstein Scuba Training + Technology Co. http://www.nitroxdiver.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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