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> It 'seems', as you put it, to have come from the private organisations > because that is how they like to portray it. The information has been > around the commercial industry for *years*. All anyone had to do was > go out and get it. That's what the 'dive gods' did. They didn't make > it up. I haven't heard of *any* tech dive organisation that has done > *any* research into diving. They have ridden on the coat tails of the > commercial and scientific industry. I agree with your point here, especially for some of the issues regarding nitrox that started this particular thread. However, I also think that the commercial dive industry doesn't deserve *all* the credit. Commercial divers don't have a long record of cave diving, or even self-contained mixed-gas diving. One of the most important skill/concept in "technical diving" is self-reliance, which is sort of opposite of how the commercial industry has generally opperated. In fact, the main contribution from the commercial industry has been the experience with the effects of different gases on people and other objects at different pressures. This, I think, of the important knowledge and skills (in my opinion, anyway) that we use have come from individuals who really had no predecessors at all. Just my 2 pennies Aloha, Rich Richard Pyle deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or* ******************************************************************* "WHATEVER happens to you when you willingly go underwater is COMPLETELY and ENTIRELY your own responsibility! If you cannot accept this responsibility, stay out of the water!" *******************************************************************
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