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> Why is this the only sport where participants
>try to do things every way other than the way the
>pro's do it?
Why bother with all the sport technical certifications and instead head
straight for a commercial diving course? Seems that way one will be taught
directly (and faster, and cheaper) all things about pots, trimix,
full-faces, helmets, plus how it is *REALLY* done by pros? Or do we have a
bunch of marketers that, since they are dealing with a sport, can feel free
to goof the gullible "sportsman with $$$" (no flame intended)???
Is there any other sport that is that close to a commercial or military
activity? (skydiving, maybe - there are pro skydivers, but they're hardly
commercial. Maybe one day we'll see "recreational astro-nuts" who'll do
things the other way than asteroid minters do - like changing spacesuit
underwear every day :) ). Or is "tech diving" no longer a sport? (must be,
one pays for his own way)...
I'll never forget one on my aunt's reaction when I told her, as a kid,
that I wanted to SCUBA dive for fun: "But... It's a job!"
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Marc Dufour, alias mdufour@ca*.or* depuis 1994
[\] ACUC 6 31874 http://WWW.CAM.ORG/~mdufour
"The study of architecture is a marvelous training for anything
but architecture. The frightening thought that what you draw
may become a building makes for reasoned lines".
Saul Steinberg, Milano, 1933
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