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Kevin Rottner wrote: > WHY DOES THIS AND SOME OTHER "NON-TECHNICAL" DEATHS become appropriate for > tech diver ? Because an overwhelming percentage of the dive community sees > them as "technical fatalities." Mention doubles, or past 130', or a little > light deco obligation and the accident becomes a "technical death." This > specific one was carefully described in an old AquaCorps, adding the > credentials that it was a "tech death." Another reason such deaths are to be made more public is the fact that I doubt everyone on this list has the technical training for the diving they attempt. Plus, there are some sporties just lurking on the list gleening info on how to pass a few buzz words to get on the trips they want to do (or get the specialized gear from certain manufactures) by just mentioning the right person's name. I know this is a fact, beacuse I've had them removed from the boat in the past. Tell me you are an TECH EANx certified diver and then ask me how to analyze your gas; the next input to you from me will be my boot kicking your ass off the trip with the Captain's blessing. There are also those still learning to decide on whether to make such a step into technical training. Sh*t, I know of a couple on this list witnessed first hand that shouldn't have been trying to dive the same limits of depth and temperature exposure as everyone else on the boat just because they had done it once before with their buddies in 80* Mexican cenotes. They were a cluster fu*k from the get-go - can you say COWBOY? But to address Kevin's clipped out point about it being hard to get a Captain to take his million dollar investment to a site like the "Moody" and let someone dive it only to possibly die while diving off that same million dollar investment, is an exposure to risk only the most wary captain will allow, and even then only with proper and extensive screening of those wanting to do the "beyond recreational" sites (boy, that's one helluva run-on sentence, eh?). As Mr. Kane has pointed out, tech diving in SoCal has received a bad rap in the past, it needs to be governed more closely by the techdivers and trip organizers themselves, and not the media/non-diving public to restore it's presence. Besides, there are alot of wrecks and sites beyond the -130' basement that I believe everyone should see after they have been properly certified. I'll be the first to admit it; I won't be visiting the "Tuna Clipper", "Triple Crown" or "Sacramento" anytime soom until I receive proper tri-mix training. But you can bring on the "Moody"s, "Olympic"s (CRASH! oh my head) and other like wrecks and deeper sites with gas changes and deco stops all week long - just don't let me in without my IANTD MHK/TJB built helmet. -- T.MAY - LA SAT TECH-SCDC/GlobeCast North America-France Telecom/NEDist http://www.globecast.com or http://www.francetelecom.com = work http://pw2.netcom.com/~tleemay/scdc.html = play http://pw2.netcom.com/~tleemay/index.html = home -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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