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Sounds like John Cronin talking: "Scuba diving is safer than bowling"  "Let
the masses in even if they can't swim."

Speaking on the recreational side as a NAUI Course Director for over 10
years and teaching rec scuba for nearly 20, with proper training and proper
pre screening of students, recreational Diving is "safe" in comparison to
many sports . However, recreational scuba is NOT for everyone despite what
the manufacturers advertise.  Even PADI had to finally relent on not
requiring students to know how to swim.

Dateline is Dateline.  Have they ever run an unbiased, unsensational report
on anything? Anyone who uses information gathered solely from dateline to
make decisions about recreational diving is about as smart as the people who
"learn" tech diving off the internet and web pages.

Susan

>Joel,
>The point that Case is trying to make is that they made it sound like all
>diving was dangerous. We all know that the Doria is no walk in the park but
>for the few who are willing to push further through proper education,
>training, practice and experience those risks are drastically reduced. This
>is what they should have said. More people get seriously hurt playing
>volleyball and driving cars than diving every year, but they at Dateline made
>it out that even recreational diving is far too dangerous for most people to
>enjoy.
>
>Food for thought...
>Alfie
>
>Joel Silverstein wrote:
>
>> Case,
>>
>> It is "terribly dangerous" and I would have thought you would have known
>> that from working with Billy for all those years. Anyone who thinks the
>> Andrea Doria is not a dangerous dive should not be doing it. There are
>> those of us who dive it each year who have learned about the wreck, its
>> hazards and opportunities, but it is by no means a walk in the park. Come
>> up sometime, and dive it, you will find it to be 10x more difficult than
>> the Wilkes Barre and the Monitor.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> joel silverstein
>
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