Sean,

I have to disagree with you on this point.  Government regulation in
diving will never happen to the diving industry.  I have been hearing
this fear for 15 years now and it will not come true.  The government
learned one thing forty or so years ago that everyone else in the
diving industry has never learned.  There is no money to be made in the
diving industry.  Ask anyone making their living in the diving
industry, they will tell you.  How are you going to regulate (ie tax)
something that no one spends any money on.  

Very few people have been able to retire from the scuba industry
comfortably.  Most just do it because they are passionate about scuba. 
We have nothing to worry about with the government regulating our
sport.  They can make a lot more money taxing something else.

I would actually like the government to regulate the diving industry. 
I could get paid for being a scuba cop and earn a government pension to
boot.  Not to mention it would be fun to ticket all my freinds for not
wearing snorkels.

TB


--- Sean Cary <smcary@mi*.co*> wrote:
> Will all the Solo Diver, personal preference crowd
> please defend this?  You
> were all gung-ho about going solo a few short months
> ago...c'mon defend the
> deaths that keep happening SOLO.
> 
> What's going to happen soon will be state or federal
> regulations on tech
> and/or rec diving...wait till that shit happens and
> then bitch about $20.00
> air fills because the shops have to be inspected by
> State or Fed
> inspectors...  How about a State or Federal
> certified instructor...  Diving
> will become cost prohibitive...ask George what he
> and the WKPP have to
> pay/do to get access to the water that other fools
> were killing themselves
> in.
> 
> There is a better way, and most are too blind or
> stubborn to see it.
> Standardization works in many more demanding
> undertakings....those of you
> too cheap or stubborn need to get a clue before the
> carpet is yanked out
> from under ALL of us.
> 
> Sean Cary
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Katherine Irvine <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
> To: More McCormack <morem@nr*.co*>
> Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Where was this guy's buddy?
> 
> 
> > The difference between what is going on on the
> schlock boats and a Bill
> > Deans operation is why the accidents are
> happening. No screens, no
> > plans, no organization, no buddies, no standards,
> no nothing. These
> > people are idiots, every last one of them, and
> they have the track
> > record to prove it. This is happening from Maine
> to Florida. Idiots.
> >
> > Yes, there are good operations, and guess what? We
> are not hearing about
> > them, we are hearing about the usuals suspects
> over and over and over.
> >
> > More McCormack wrote:
> > >
> > > "Coast Guard Lt. Tim Dickerson who investigated
> all three Andrea Doria
> > > fatalities last year, said the only links he
> found with the deaths were
> the
> > > divers
> > > did not stick with diving buddies. Two of the
> three who died did not
> dive
> > > with
> > > a buddy. A third did, but swam away from him at
> the wreck."
> > >
> > > It seems that this trend continues.
> > >
> > > Copied from the link below.
> > >
>
http://hotnews.nj.com/cgi-free/getstory.cgi?j0198_PM_NJ--DivingDeath&NJO&new
> > > s&njregional
> > >
> > > More McCormack
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Katherine Irvine
> [mailto:kirvine@sa*.ne*]
> > > > Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 9:41 AM
> > > > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
> > > > Subject: Where was this guy's buddy?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://www.newsday.com/news/nsecthu.htm
> > > >
> > > >       Somebdoy try to tell me this is not a
> bullshit operation. How
> > > > about Christina Young - tell me how it is up
> there. Tell me how it
> > > > should be done. You people are giving strokes
> a bad name.
> > > >
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