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In a message dated 10/21/00 9:29:34 PM EST, Trimixjoe writes: << If you ask the typical ice diving instructor (Being Ice Diving Instructor Certified Myself) how to ice dive and what is the proper equipment to use for ice diving, he/she will have you rigged for bungy jumping. Ice diving has had very little written on the subject, and the procedures that are being used today are limiting which are set up for nit-wit divers. As Instructors we not allowed to step outside the standards it would be a violation. There are better ways of ice diving then being used by the training agencies today and it can help those already certified in ice diving to discuss over the Internet better procedures, and equipment. >> I agree that some of the prodedures being recommended by the agencies are stupid but I do not think they are dangerous. Unfortunately, some of the prodeedures being recommended on the internet by persons who, obviously, have little or no experience in this type of diving have the potential to create dangerous situations. My point is that not everyone who posts in this forum has a clue. Cave diving does not equal ice diving. If an instructor does not think that he can adequately train his students within the standards of his agency, he is bound, ethically, to go outside those standards. He needs to exceed those standards, teach an unsanctioned course or find a different agency. I repeat, if you want to learn to ice dive find an instructor you trust who actually is an ice diver. Safe diving, Dale -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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