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----- Original Message ----- From: <BenW@pm*.co*.uk*> To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 1:42 AM Subject: Another Diving Death <snip> > Diving industry has no > standards Sure it does. It has standardized 90% its training regimens and gear sales to separate you from the money in your wallet. Make a thousand words work, where three would do, simply to fill a book your students have to buy. "In the unlikely event" shouldn't even be a phrase associated with SCUBA diving, but is in the textbooks. The problem is also in the "consumer" (I did not use the word "diver" on purpose). Fishing lures to fishermen and all that. And, people want to *look* like "Joe Studly, Techdiver", whether they need to or not, for the same reason they buy shit like Lincoln and Mercedes SUV's. Shingle collectors have waiting and willing "instructors", who will take their money, and increase the students penis size. And, it has become fact that c-cards don't really mean anything, you can simply buy them. Many courses are designed to allow you to pass, not to make you a competent diver. I have *never* had to use any of the ones I have, except to silence the Howler Monkey. I saw an *instructor* last week, with a friggin single 95, OMS 100# double bladder (complete with strobe light on the epaulette), big ass Poseidon knife on the outside of his left leg, *two* computers (for back up) (remember, this is a single tank dive), 13 cuft pony, and three second stages, argon bottle, (single tank dive!) with long hose tucked into bungies on the side of the wing. And he just thought he was the *shit*! We had to walk away and laugh, and at the same time we were stunned. What could possibly have taken this mans mind so far down the road to abject stupidity. He seemed fairly intelligent. I see shit all the time that you simply wouldn't believe. I have pictures of a rig that will blow your mind. If any one wants to see the horror, let me know, and I'll post it (87 KB). Scott -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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