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    I guess that nails it on the head. Risk Management, one determines whether
or not the risk of the dive is worth the experience. This is an individual
determination (personal preferance), whether it be to push a line a couple miles
into a cave system or dive 500 feet in open ocean. Yes its risky, but with the
proper equipment and training the risks can be reduced.
Good Diving by George

susan m. innes wrote:

> >Den 09:11 11-08-99  skrev bigvon@be*.ne*:
> >>Geoege
> >>And a four hour bottom time at 285'  18000 foot dive is classified as
> >>smart????
> >>I guess what I m hearing is that DIR would not do beep ocean dives???
> >
> >It it unwise to incur a huge deco obligation in the ocean when the
> >evironment can change so quickly: currents, fog, storms, etc. The
> >evironment does not change like this in caves.
> >
> >://Peter Fjelsten
>
> So peter you are agreeing that DIR divers do not do deep ocean dives -
> what's the Brittanica????????
>
> I fully understand that the vast majority of the population on this planet
> considers it unwise to make the dives.  So what?  There are many sport
> activities people feel this way about. Climbing mountains higher than 25,000
> feet - there could be avalanches, storms etc.  All ways to die having
> nothing necessarily to do with the skill of the climber.  But if you want to
> climb K2 you do it.  If you want to jump out of a perfectly good plane you
> do it.  Now there's something I would definitely consider unwise.
>
> susan
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