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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:59:37 -0400
From: Ken Sallot <sallot@mi*.co*>
Organization: WKPP
To: kirvine@sa*.ne*
CC: bdi@wh*.ne*, Tom Mount <TOM.MOUNT@wo*.at*.ne*>,
     William J Turbeville II , techdiver@aquanaut.com,
     cavers@ca*.co*
Subject: Re: Fatality at Die Polder III
Even your typical Openwater 1 student should be able to tell you that
color coding things is stupid if for no other reason then ROYGBIV. Next
we'll hear about how the students should sniff the gases to determin the
proper amount of oxygen in the mix.

kirvine@sa*.ne* wrote:
> 
> Billy , this is what happened with Jane ORensten - not only did they
> have no idea what was in the tanks by looking at them, they never even
> noticed she was breathing the wrong one based on the side bullshit that
> Mount subscribes to ( and actually REQUIRES instructors to do if you can
> believe that ), and they did not notice that the colored regs , poodle
> jackets and the rest of the claptrap was wrong.

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

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