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on 3/11/00 6:21 AM, Trey at trey@ne*.co* wrote: > Coco, let's cut to the chsse here : "Intro to Cave" is bullshit. The > problem is that the instructional community is a bunch of scum. Either > real cave or no cave. Diving other than with doubles is bullshit in a > cave, and having a partial license is bullshit. > > There is NOTHING in this world of diving more dangerous than a partially > trained cave diver, not even deep air. Air to 400 feet after smoking pot > is a better bet to me any day. Trey, I've believed this since I was trained in 1990. My instructor, J. Billy Young, said and believed exactly that. He felt that if you are in a cave breathing compressed air you'd damn-well better be trained to handle anything that could happen in that cave. For that reason my class with him started a few months after I'd done cavern and he took us all the way through over a two-month period. Because I live in Atlanta we had that luxury. We did more than the required number of dives and we had a lot more classroom discussion and work. By the time it was done I knew everything he believed about caves and cave diving and then we put it into practice. I believe that made me a good cave diver right out of the gate. You're one of the first divers I've heard actually agree with that position in ten years. Intro is BS. Later, JoeL -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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