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In Skiing you have a Ski or Safety Patrol. If they see a skier with bear trap bindings on, his "ski pass" is removed, he is NOT allowed to ski. If a skier attempts to ski down avalanche slopes or other dangerous areas, they get ejected from the slope. And skiing has no where near the danger potential of tech diving. In tech diving, when a diver gears up and places his weight belt under his harness, stuffs his hose, mixes steel doubles with a wet suit, essentially tries to ski with "bear traps", the dive master and captain tend to allow this personal preference. If the boat was sitting in 600 feet of water and a moron decided to bounce the bottom on deep air, many tech boats would allow it. Brains and tech diving are often unrelated. For tech diving to have a future, this has to change. In adventure sports attempting to cater to large chunks of the general population ( rock climbing & mountain climbing, skiing, whitewater kayaking, skydiving, acrobatic flying, etc.) absence of a person to prevent terminal stupidity in each outing is equivalent to assisted suicide. The dive boat that thinks they can be no more than a taxi service for a tech diving crowd, is destined to kill. The captains and crew that think these deaths are OK, need to viewed in this light ( as Kevorkians ) I'm not talking about handholding on tech dives, I'm talking VERY BASIC common sense issues like the examples above. Examples we hear about all to often. Dan Volker -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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