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Exactly! It's very difficult to brow beat someone trying to enter an overhead environment when they may have already been in there with their O/W instructor during or after their initial training dives. I live for the day that a training agency brings the hammer down and says "No More!!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodriguez" <mikey@ma*.co*> To: "The McLeods" <rmmacleod@ac*.ca*> Cc: "techdiver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:29 PM Subject: Re:cement pig > At 09:03 AM 8/3/2001 -0300, The McLeods wrote: > > Hello Randy, > > >Hi Jim,I agree there should be more control over these cavern area's for > >newer diver's.I will admit I was at Ginnie once when I was an open water > >weenie.I found the cavern very safe line out gated off and exit visible at > >most times.I don't know about the other's,but this experience really stoked > >my interest in cave diving without having to take an expensive course.Common > >sense should prevail in these location's > > The problem with your position is that, while open water divers are > generally safe in the Ginnie cavern, allowing them ready access there > desensitizes them to the potential dangers. This is often what leads > them to enter caverns and caves elsewhere (like Royal Springs) expecting > similar conditions. > > Better, I think, to tell open water divers they should *never* enter > any cavern, not even the Ginnie cavern, until they've been through > the training. > > -Mike Rodriguez > <mikey@mi*.ne*> > http://www.mikey.net/scuba > Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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