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Wrolf Courtney wrote:
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> CMAS represents almost every national agency, except for the major U.S. ones.

> The Underwater Society of America, the YMCA Scuba program, the United 
> States of America Underwater Federation, and Technical Diving International, 
> are members. NAUI, PADI, SSI, IANTD, etc. are not.

PADI, after some "adjustment", "compromise", "nod and wink", etc, you
get my drift, sort of filled the shoes of BS-AC whom CMAS "expelled".
BS-AC was a founder member and then encountered the wrath of the
octogenarians (a word I use advisedly) in the CMAS. I don't think that
BS-AC, of whom as I recall you are a member Wrolf, are unduly concerned.

Moreover I would hardly think that the CMAS "represents almost every
national agency, except for the major U.S. ones".
> 
> So in this case, it looks to me like a bunch of foreigners ramming stuff down 
> the throats of Americans.

> But to me, cultural sensitivity cuts both ways.  Go ahead, protect your Greek
> triremes, your national underwater treasures.  But do not take away my San 
> Diego dive.

Hmmmm, you have triremes in San Diego waters? :-)

More importantly, if you were to study the history of the CMAS they did,
admittedly quite some time ago, do some extraordinarily good things
(amongst the usual stupid stuff of any of these high faluting bodies).
Nevertheless I think the CMAS, much like Tyrannosaurus Rex, has had its
day. Many years ago now it even moved its headquarters from France
(Confederation Mondiale des Activites Subaquatique:
Confederation-World-of-Activities-Underwater) to Rome, Italy. :-7

Didn't translate their title to Italian though, did they?!

Cheers,

Christian


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