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Its easy. We divers vote with our wallets. Bottom line is that our money controls this sport. Quit buying shit gear, quit patronizing shops that are known rip off's. Drive a little further to go to a good shop. Put the word out about bad experiences, as well as good. Usually, a few names keep coming up on booth sides of the fence. Weed out the bad ones. Make it known, in no uncertain terms, that our money is spent on what we want to buy, not what they want to sell us. Make it known, by not taking any of the sales based training, that we are smarter (and reading information *not* sold to us by "them") and that 30 courses, where three would do, isn't going to float. The internet is changing the face of diving. This is one source of information that marketing interests don't control. All the magazines commonly available are paid for by advertising, and the content is definitely focused on sales, and controlled 100% by advertising. Which is why you *never* see anything about GUE, DIR, WKPP in them, just *hundreds* of bullshit, already done too many times, articles on Bonaire, the Caymans, etc. Call bullshit when you see it. I have a buddy that just got his ass reamed for going to a pool session (that he was invited to) with his DIR Halcyon rig. The instroketor reamed him for showing up in gear like that, and "stuff we don't sell". Par for the course. Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Aldo P. Solari [APS] <aldo.solari@ho*.se*> To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:50 PM Subject: stand against commercialism > I, for one, support the stand against commercialism within the > diving community which has been expressed by some of the senior > technical divers. > > These *money hungry* commercial operations in Canary Islands do > more harm than anything else. Both the environment and the junior > diver population are badly hit by these > "do-whatever-for-the-buck" operators. They rent bad equipment, > give diving licenses after a *single day* of "training" and abuse > many critical sites for fish recruitment. And they give a damn if > one attempts to inform them on the environmental abuses. > > This maybe a critical issue which could be addressed by DIR. > > cheers, > > aldo solari > > aldo.solari@ho*.se* > www.ccbb.ulpgc.es/fish-ecology/solaris > ___ > > > -- > 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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