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on 5/7/01 5:22 AM, Patrick Norris at pbnorris@bi*.co* wrote: > The problem with technical diving is that it > has grown up largely under the supervision of cowboys and marketers, who > have focused more on the product (gear and certification) than the process > (training and safety). Most of these agencies have a general set of rules > which are covered during training, but fear the dogmatism of > standardization, practiced unwaveringly not only during training, but long > after, would send potential customers to another agency. This is an sad but true point Patrick. Most people who train technical divers are also dive shops, who have preferred arrangements with gear suppliers. Their owners and instructors are often not capable of giving an unbiased gear recommendation because of these relationships. In a perfect world, the training would be totally divorced from selling the gear allowing the trainers to say "this reg sucks because ... " or "these wings are dangerous because ....." But unfortunately in practice that doesn't happen :-( regards *** dean laffan real world productions melbourne, australia ph +613-9419-3966 Mobile - 0418-525-315 It said on the box: 'Requires Windows 95 or better' ... so I bought a Mac ! -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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