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Dave Sams wrote: (snips) > I don't know about that...have watched Bird and Larry Green fail > students. And, as far as I can tell, any cave diving is real diving. (snip) That last comment is _quite_ a statement, although a generalisation. Care to take it further? > Granted, there are differences between the cave dives you're doing and > the "recreational" cave dives that most of us do on the weekend, but at > the end of the day we've both been feeling our way along in the dark. Again, care to take it further? Actually, I rather hope that "at the end of the day we've both been feeling our way along in the dark" is not as naive as it sounds. > If I may so humbly ask, which agency did you first certify cave with? > Forgive me, but your attitude (and agency affiliation) is showing. So what's wrong with that? Aren't other people entitled to an opinion, just like you? EVEN IF it was an agency that the DIR crowd now has not truck with, can't people change their minds along the way once they know (or think they know) better? > And just for my information (I missed your explanation) what, exactly, > was the new entry technique you demonstrated last fall at PeacockI? As follows. You're new here, aren't you? Seems you just failed TechDiver I. Which happens to be "search the Archives before putting hoof into mouth". Then you failed TechDiver II. Which is "lay low, listen and espy the land". The list probably goes on. Cheers, Christian > >The only thing you need for an NACD course is a checkbook and two days. It > >is a joke. The "instructors" do not themselves do any real diving , > >whereas the GUE guys do, and the majority of them are going to run you > >through bullshit dives as fast as they can so they can get on back to the > >trailer for Miller Time. > > > >The one thing you can get from the NACD is a card, no matter how much of a > >clusterfuck you are, so if you can not pass the walk and chew gum test, go > >to the NACD. If you are a real basket case, go to the CDS. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: pina > > To: Brad, Jen, and Sam > > Cc: Techdiver > > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 10:29 PM > > Subject: don't be silly....was....RE: Advice on NACD? > > > > That is silly. > > > > Here is the link to the GUE Cave 1 course: > > http://www.gue.com/classroom/standards/gue_cave1_student.pdf > > > > You do not need any prior cave/cavern training for this course, and if > >you have had any they will just have to un-train all the bad habits you > >have developed, and straighten the bad gear advice you received from other > >instructors. > > > > Just get the proper training the first time. > > > > --pina -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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