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--part1_d0.1570c178.282e8711_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/12/2001 7:16:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, wgrogan@dc*.ne* writes: > Please, think over this. Maybe ... you should sometime throw a > > flower, a stone or a coin into the ocean as you glide into the > > water ... to remember those who passed away. I do it. > > > > cheers, > > > > aldo.solari@ho*.se* > > www.ccbb.ulpgc.es/fish-ecology/solaris > > Thanks for the thought. > > To my count, there are 5 dead from last weekend alone. > > The motto of the American pathologist society roughly translates to "Let > the dead teach us so we can live." There are some who die because they > refuse to learn simple lessons. There are others whose death is purely > My own opinion is that both the California and Florida was not a failure of training, instructors, or the training agencies, it was a failure of the divers to apply the training they had. No instructor or agency would ever say it was safe to dive past 200' on air and to go past 300' on air is beyond my comprehension. I know that there are some that will for the "Buzz" (shade of the 'Call of the Wa Wa' ) but there are also some who put a needle in their arms for the same reason. In both cases you can't help the person if they do not want help. In the case of the deep California death, I hear the first comments of "Who was the instructor" and "I bet I can guess what agency the got their cert from" what does it matter which agency or instructor - they were stupid and disregarded what they may have been taught. What would you say if someone had a GUE cert and did something as stupid as this? Some people can be instructed all day long every day and will still disregard what they have learned. Pete Johnson --part1_d0.1570c178.282e8711_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 5/12/2001 7:16:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, <BR>wgrogan@dc*.ne* writes: <BR> <BR> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Please, think over this. Maybe ... you should sometime throw a <BR>> flower, a stone or a coin into the ocean as you glide into the <BR>> water ... to remember those who passed away. I do it. <BR>> <BR>> cheers, <BR>> <BR>> aldo.solari@ho*.se* <BR>> www.ccbb.ulpgc.es/fish-ecology/solaris <BR> <BR>Thanks for the thought. <BR> <BR>To my count, there are 5 dead from last weekend alone. <BR> <BR>The motto of the American pathologist society roughly translates to "Let <BR>the dead teach us so we can live." There are some who die because they <BR>refuse to learn simple lessons. There are others whose death is purely <BR>tragic. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> <BR>My own opinion is that both the California and Florida was not a failure of <BR>training, instructors, or the training agencies, it was a failure of the <BR>divers to apply the training they had. <BR> <BR>No instructor or agency would ever say it was safe to dive past 200' on air <BR>and to go past 300' on air is beyond my comprehension. I know that there are <BR>some that will for the "Buzz" (shade of the 'Call of the Wa Wa' ) but there <BR>are also some who put a needle in their arms for the same reason. In both <BR>cases you can't help the person if they do not want help. <BR> <BR>In the case of the deep California death, I hear the first comments of "Who <BR>was the instructor" and "I bet I can guess what agency the got their cert <BR>from" what does it matter which agency or instructor - they were stupid and <BR>disregarded what they may have been taught. What would you say if someone had <BR>a GUE cert and did something as stupid as this? <BR> <BR>Some people can be instructed all day long every day and will still disregard <BR>what they have learned. <BR> <BR>Pete Johnson</FONT></HTML> --part1_d0.1570c178.282e8711_boundary-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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