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Hi Capt, Although we are friends, with all due respect I had to address this... Aside from the apparent misinformation re GUE insurance, let's talk about that Seeker track record you mention below. No one used to do as many Doria and other hard core trips has he did (11 Doria trips a year, many other deep offshore wrecks as well). Let's face it, being 100 miles offshore doing deep dives on a hazardous wreck in adverse conditions has a lot of risk to it, and groups from all four corners of the earth charter the boat to dive one of the world's most famous wrecks. If DIR/GUE boats (is there such a thing?) did as many of those kinds of wrecks, things would go wrong as well. What level of screening should / can the captain be responsible for??? What level should the groups chartering be responsible for? Already the Seeker requires medical information, more than the Miss Lindsey ever asked me for. Can they be responsible if people lie about that, or should they have an EKG machine and a nurse taking your collesterol reading at the boat? I dive with you guys occasionally (and have a lot of fun doing it), and I just got back from my first Seeker trip in 2 years (and had fun diving with those guys as well). You yourself have said in the past that they run a good operation (requires you to fill out a dive plan, have a boat that is superbly outfitted for those kinds of trips, etc etc etc). Now you are saying that his operations needs to be updated, as well as his clientele. Can you elaborate on this? What specific items need updating and how, and how should he go about "updating his clientele"? Cheers, and I hope you can come up soon and dive, Christina www.christinayoung.com At Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:05:40 -0400 Capt JT wrote: --=====================_26101733==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Trey, I could give a shit what you or the other guy says, I checked with the CG......... TODAY....... to be sure I was correct. I only must walk 300ft from my office to the USCG Marine Safety Office where I work, they are stationed inside the shipyard I am employed at......... They handle all of the inspections for the SPV in this area.......... I discussed the procedure for over an hour with them. Then I called and talked to the pilots again in EC, NC......got the same answers they gave me at the safety seminar. Sure Danny sucks shit for lieing, everyone who lies does......... Sure he has the worst track record for deaths........You are the last person I want to butt heads with, but I will not lie or change the facts of any event to suit personal agendas. Clearly his dive operation needs to be updated as well as some of his clientele. There are 2 kinds of Captains, those that have already had an accident and those that are about to. I have done everything possible to keep the trips I'm on safe, but that does not ensure it will not happen. Must I endure the same crap on these list if it happens to me and nothing I did was wrong..........is that what you plan for me. The CG does not know jack shit about diving....... they know about boat handling ect.......they rule over us Captains, cut and dry. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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