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Christian I will expand on it - I have had the misfortune to dive many UK wreck sites when BSAC clubs have been present and I believe that in general BSAC club divers are of a very poor standard. My main beefs: 1) The BSAC training seems to pay almost no attention to good buoyancy skills. 2) Equipment configuration is totally random with little or no attention to streamlined kit. 3) A medieval attitude to mixed gas diving allied to an outmoded gung ho deep air mentality. 4) Very poor understanding of decompression theory. These are of course generalisations and many BSAC divers are exceptionally good - but the standard of the average club diver is "pants" ;-) Though the average PADI diver is no better Not sure why you thought my comment was any more unsubstantiated than the original post praising BSAC et al. Regards Mark PS Now its time to sit back and take a load of flak from my BSAC trained mates! -----Original Message----- From: Christian Gerzner [mailto:christiang@cc*.co*.au*] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:24 To: Mark Dixon Cc: Matthias Voss; techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: DIR Training question Mark Dixon <jj@da*.co*> wrote: > > BSAC - you've gotta be joking! Sez he, speaking from Oz and not in the least BSAC affiliated: Care to expound on that comment? Substantiate it? I'll put this to you: whilst nobody/no organisation is perfect they're still well and truly around and they were around (as a dive training organisation), to my knowledge, before *anyone* else. Making wild, unsubstantiated, comment such as that seriously sticks in my craw and, yes, I note that your address seems to be from the UK. Cheers, Christian -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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