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Actually guys, this will be Darwin theory in action...this may even qualify
for the Darwin Awards.  Allot of recreational divers PADI, TDI etc. will
leave the seen (their next of ken will litigate) and the divers that remain
will be DIR.  PADI, TDI and the rest will be out of business due to
liability judgements against them and the only surviving agency will be GUE.

Interesting scenario yes?  

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Braunbehrens [mailto:Bakalite@ba*.co*]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:41 AM
To: stuart.morrison@sw*.co*.uk*; Don.Hoover@ds*.co*;
techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: RE: Recreational Tech. Diving


<stuart.morrison@sw*.co*.uk*> wrote:
~
>Don,
>
>you are right to worry. You've got people that admit they are not  
>technical divers and don't even have the basic knowledge and yet in a  
>very short time they are not only going to be doing this kind of diving  
>but teaching it?
>
>In the Undersea Journal (the magazine PADI doesn't let the customer see)  
>they have discussed how they don't like doing fitness checks for  
>non-professional certs as it is discouraging to the customers. An  
>instructor with a cave cert and 20 cave dives can become a cavern  
>instructor and teach the right way to dive in a cave on a single bottle.  
>Nitrox, they said, was too complicated to teach until it became  
>profitable. They will either turn out divers woefully inadequate,  
>woefully incompetent, woefully ignorant or answer D, all of the above.
>
>Be afraid.

No, no, they are going to make money, money, and more money.  That's 
all that matters, right?
-- 
Paul B.
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