JT, I was on a boat recently and I mentioned to my buddy how many 
techdivers you see that really don't have their stuff together, yet 
they do very serious dives.  He replied that a lot of these guys have 
over a thousand dives, but it doesn't mean much, if nothing goes 
wrong.  Fact is, most of the time nothing goes wrong, even if you are 
totally convoluted and don't really know what you're doing.  As he 
says "it's not that hard to hold a stop!".  The test is what you do 
when something does go wrong, and that's where the proper training 
comes in.  After taking a GUE class I realized two things, 1) that I 
wasn't ready for a lot of the dives I did when I did them, and 2) 
that now I am.  This is really one of the nice things about the GUE 
training.  When someone has a GUE level of certification it actually 
tells you something about their abilities as a diver.  I'm not going 
to go into the stuff I've seen among TDI instructors, I'm sure you've 
seen the same thing.  It's really amazing how any yahoo who can tell 
water from sand will get a little plastic card from most agencies, as 
long as s/he pays for the class.

Cheers.


Capt JT wrote:
~
>Randy, I have rejected many divers request to do the deep wrecks 
>with me, not based on the logged number of dives they "say" they 
>have, but the way they say it, in a matter of just a few emails I 
>can pick out the lairs or losers most of the time. If I ask for a 
>reference, you better have a good one. I have a list of emails I 
>have saved from divers wanting to go on trips with me and I denied 
>them access and saw later that they were injured or died on a dive, 
>I can almost always pick them out.
>
>  At 08:21 PM 9/22/01 -0300, The McLeods wrote:
>
>>Hi JT,I know you can't be serious about dive number's.400 ocean 
>>dives in the caribean mean's jack shit!The number of dives,or 
>>exagerated figures most guy's throw around mean's nothing.The 
>>quality of the dives,condition's experieced,skills of the people 
>>you dive with and many other factor's seperate the real diver's 
>>from wannabees.Regards Randy
>>
>
>"You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get 
>in the water"
>Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more
>  Web Site  http://www.capt-jt.com/
>Email     captjt@mi*.co*


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