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Mark, Your the first person to post any such situation. I guess it just goes to show you that ignorance knows no bounds. Coming from the buddy of an abandoned/dead diver, I guess we would just have to consider the source. I have dove from St Thomas to Agamemnon, and never once run into any operation that would refuse DIR. My experience has been that they ask questions about the gear configuration, if they have never seen it before, and think it's pretty cool. They always ask "Where did you learn that?" My answer is always "Its from those crazy fuckers in Florida that go 300 feet deep, 3 miles back into those caves." Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark G." <w8mg@pa*.ne*> To: "Tech list" <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:48 AM Subject: RE: diving in Baja? > > > > > Has any DIR diver here *ever* been refused access to a charter > > boat, or any > > other dive site or facility? > > > > > > yes (sorta): > > there is at least one facility out west that wont let you wear a long hose. > One dive store manager in particular told me that i could use it, but he > wouldnt let anyone else, period. go figure as to why. > > my guess; a hold over from more than 10 years ago, when several people saw > the long hose and decided to use them for lobster hunting. They would take > off their tanks and used the long hose like a hooka to explore small cracks. > a little surge, and they were separated from their air; not too brite, but > it happened fairly frequently (for a while) back then. > > This fellows solution; you can dive what you want, just not a long hose. He > has reiterated this position to me within the last year. And he is a self > described "tek " diver; a nice guy and otherwise good diver, but he learned > from an instructor who has left at least one buddy/body on the doria; in my > opinion not the best example of instructor. > > And he hasnt dove his mess enough yet to figure just how problematic his > (fairly recently learned) techniques are. > > mark -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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