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Kevin i bed you are a colourful recreational diver aren't you ?
Do you tech dive ?
4 God sake your reply must be a Joke !!
>>Aside from freedom of choice, which presumably we all agree on,......>>
Freedom of movement you also have when you drive without your seat belt
on ... do you ??
>>there are valid reasons for some divers to want to dive solo.
>>Underwater photography is a perfect example.
YES it is a perfect example where you neeeeeed to have a buddy.
Specially when you are concentrated on your subject or in your view-finder.
My buddy can understand this and he doesn't complain because im his buddy
when he is rolling on another dive.
>>Most of the time, the agencies are well behind the diving community,
Open your eyes Some they are but others are behind your wallet....
>>And making money isn't bad.
It is when you making money by risking other people life's , teaching
deep air , steel stages ..bla bla bla ...
>> Why not allow a capable diver
>>that has appropriate training and experience to dive alone ??
Who defines capable and experience divers ? I know divers with
over 500 wrong dives!!!
Manos Manoli
kevin.obrien03@us*.cg*.co* wrote:
> At the risk of being severely flamed by many on this list, I have to
> disagree on the solo diver issue. I think that, for certain individuals,
> there is nothing wrong with wanting to dive solo. Aside from freedom of
> choice, which presumably we all agree on, there are valid reasons for some
> divers to want to dive solo. Underwater photography is a perfect example.
> Most of the time the buddy is bored to tears or nowhere to be found, as the
> photo diver moves very slowly and may spend a lot of time (maybe the entire
> dive) around a single subject. But let's get to the point that seems to
> irritate most of those against solo diving. You see it as a greed issue
> for the agencies. That's pure bullshit. Most of the time, the agencies
> are well behind the diving community, only finally creating new training
> after there is a proven demand for it. Come on, use your heads, is an
> agency going to spend lots of $$ creating training materials, spending
> legal fees, etc. for a course that only a very small number of people will
> pay for. Of course not. The agencies are for-profit businesses. They
> provide a service that a reasonably large group of divers will want --
> enough so that they can make money. And making money isn't bad. Anyone
> else on this list in business ?? Do you want to make money -- or go broke
> ?? In fact, profit at the agencies allows them to do research, create new
> training approaches and other things that have made this sport safer every
> year. So, to the question of solo diving. Why not allow a capable diver
> that has appropriate training and experience to dive alone if he/she
> chooses ?? At a minimum, the agencies might require advanced/rescue level
> certification, minimum of 100 dives, max. depth 80-100 ft, completely
> redundant gas supply with min. volume, say a 13 cf pony, etc. as
> prerequisites. As a recreational diving instructor, I can tell you that
> when I have a group of non-certified open water students underwater on
> their training dives, I am diving alone. Who's going to help me if I have
> a problem ?? One of the students ?? Not a chance in hell. OK, I've said
> my piece. Flame on. Safe diving -- KOB.
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