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Everybody in the diving community needs to be superman?? Nope, the ones doing the red sea in a shorty for 30min to a max deep of 15 meters have different needs for level of training than George and JJ. If these divers later on wants to do cave, Brittanic or the likes, they need more training. They do not need everything at once. Einar > Einar > And here in lies the problem. You are admitting that you will compromise > and certify people that are not good diving candidates and have taken the > diving is for everyone approach. It is not!!! That is why the diving gene > pool is so scary and leaves so few who continue to dive. Probably the > biggest reason for the 90% + diver dropout rate is the compromised training > and I'LL PASS YOU EVEN THOUGH YOUR SKILLS ARE SUBSTANDARD. We need to > raised the training bar not lower it. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Einar Hagen <einar.hagen@un*.co*> > To: Andrew <andrewg@fi*.co*> > Cc: Techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > Date: Monday, January 03, 2000 3:02 AM > Subject: Re: DUI rock boots and other PADI stuff > > > >Somebody has to market diving for the public, and the general > >public is not ready to commit to exellence, they have not the > >time, money or interest to do that and we as diving pros have two > >options as i see it, either say; sorry diving is not for anyone but the > >macho, dedicated, wannabe-a-stardiver with lots of time and money, > >or compromise. I feel the latter is ok, -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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