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A friend of mine once said it best, deep air is not technical diving,
it's drug abuse.

John Walker wrote:
> 
> Al,
> 
>   Every time some numb nuts straps on a set of doubles and kills or
> injures while exceeding their own limits someone else trys to point at
> the technical community.  Bullshit!  This is the type of stuff that
> helped put the west coast years behind after one senseless double
> fatality on a wreck off So.Calif several years ago. This is no technical
> diving accident. Were's the technique?
>  If you choose to analize all the recreational accidents then have at
> it, but please don't confuse the two for our sports sake(technical
> diving). DAN has an average of 90 per year.  Yes, technical diving
> accidents are increasing but lets not try to add numbers to the list
> calling anything beyond rereational limits technical.
>  This has nothing to do with sweeping anything under the rug.  I'm just
> throwing the trash back over the fence were it belongs.
> 
>    Thanks for your reply,
> 
>        John

-- 
"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate
is first-rate."
                      -- Doris Lessing
                       (British writer)

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