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OR...After the deaths start piling up, the bereaved mothers of dead 18 and
19 year olds get together and form Mothers Against Deep Diving. This
organization files class action law suits against dive training agencies and
also lobbies at the state and federal level for legislation to "prevent
these senseless tragedies from taking more lives". Before you know it, we
have government regulation of the industry. I could see it now. Maximum
depth limits (right around 60'), mandatory inspections of dive gear by inept
government employees, licenses, and of course all overhead diving will be
COMPLETELY illegal. In no time at all we'd be legislated into pool diving
only.
Although I am a firm believer in darwinism, I fear the tendency for the
government to want to protect me from myself. Any increase in "technical"
diving deaths will be bad for everyone in the sport. While the examples
above are extreme, it's hard to say what a bunch of do-gooders could achieve
against a small niche group like technical divers if they really wanted to
legislate us out of our hobby. Ever notice the references George makes to
cave diving becoming illegal?
He knows. No more deaths is the answer, if we all want to continue diving.
Duane
Don Hoover wrote:
>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?
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