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Ah, simple: Florida, GUE Best, THOM ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Wiseley <wiseleyb@ya*.co*> To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 8:21 AM Subject: Cave training > Hi, > > I'm new to the mailing list and had some questions > about Cave training. > > I was looking for recommendations of places to do my > training. I was interested in doing training in > either Mexico or Florida but am open to any > suggestions. > > What are peoples thoughts on TDI, GUE, and NSS-CDS? > Is one group much better or is it the teacher that you > should look for? In Florida... when they say you need > a "cave card" does it matter who it's from? > > I'm looking for very solid training but would like to > avoid the overly opinionated people that seem to be in > the tech community during my training (the people who > will bite your head off if you dare to ask WHY the > Hogarthian method is better than others). I would > like to find a group/individual who are more like > teachers/scientists than some mad man military type. > I realize that there is endless debate about every > aspect of technical diving (although you all seem to > agree that training is necessary). I also realize > that, at some point, the teacher made a decision that > he thought was best and that everyone is very > passionate about tech diving because people die doing > it. I just don't want to take classes from someone > who verges on psychopathic if you dare ask why (which > seems like a pretty natural thing to do in tech > diving). > > My experience: PADI Rescue Diver. 70 dives (Boston, > Caribbean, and California). Will be diving all of Feb > - which should bring logged dives well over 100. I've > read every book I can find on technical (cave, wreck, > deep) diving and would like to take the next step by > starting training. > > Goals: I'd like to be able to dive in moderate caves > and minimize the risks as much as possible. > > Sorry for the long post. Any information would be > greatly appreciated. > > -ben > Boston, MA > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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