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Dan, you may be hell in the water, but you sure don't get in much skiing down there - your latest analogy just doesn't work. First of all, I have never heard of the ski patrol stopping someone from skiing because of gear, except in the case of missing safety straps (= danger to others) on old non-brake safety bindings, or for that matter, stopping anyone for anything except skiing too fast or recklessly too near to other skiers. Secondly, the whole situation is completely different - when you downhill ski, you are skiing are prepared terrain that is owned or leased by the ski mountain, and which they are charging you to use. That vastly alters the liability issues - if the same ski patrol guy was to try and "eject" someone who was cc skiing on ungroomed public lands, he wouldn't get very far. Other than that, no problem. A beginner wearing skis with antique bindings that are 50 cm's too long can cheerfully launch themselves down an expert slope without hearing whistles or sirens. Oh, and a few dozen people die skiing every year. Does something worse happen to techdivers? >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. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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