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ROB CASON <iantdaus@oz*.co*.au*> wrote (Subject: Recreational Mixed Gas Diving in Australasia):- > ... there was considerable opposition to the introduction of recreational > mixed gas diving in Australasia from the NSW, SA and QLD Governments & the > Royal Australian and Royal New Zealand Navies that resulted in WorkCover > Prohibition and Improvement Notices in NSW What are the effects in NSW of these Notices on (a) sport nitrox diving, (b) work nitrox diving? > ... and a total ban in QLD. Is this likely to change? What would happen if people start in a big way to say the well-known legal expression `the law is an ass' and ignore it? (Same as in my schooldays I systematically ignored a rule from my father not to pushbike along a particular bypass road (the Meriden Bypass: I lived in Rugby in Warwickshire then) which he treated as a dragon's den from second-hard reports without having driven along it himself much if at all.) I get weary of navies trying to rule the world's civilian divers and to enforce hard naval standards on them. Also of people who are hooked on one format of something and can't stand anything different: e.g. once about 20 years ago I and a friend went to an inland diving site with an oxygen rebreather each, and other divers there acted as if we had come in a flying saucer. > After seeking legal advice from the solicitors Parry, Carroll and Kanjian > (the solicitors who ran the successful Midford - Paramount v. Australian > Customs Service case), ... What case was this? Was it anything to do with diving or diving gear? > Questions included contestable profession advice provided to the NSW > WorkCover Authority and the role of Navy in the obstruction of recreational > mixed gas diving. And I ask the same. Of the committees involved, how many dived? See above. It is too easy for hardened aqualung divers to treat air aqualungs as the classical, the correct, the uniform, the only right way, and to forbid the different merely because it is different. I heard a few years ago that in Queensland divers must wear stab jackets, not old-style separate lifejackets. Rules, rules, "this is the diver's uniform & you must use THAT and no other". The muddle-headed decisions sometimes made by committees is proverbial, e.g. the saying "the camel is a horse designed by a committee". > Questions about possible bastardisation during Navy diving courses were also > raised. ... What is `bastardization' here? What was contaminated with what? Re nitrox: the various sorts of automatic mixture rebreather: how likely are these to get much use in work diving in each major nation without it being made as cumbersome as old hardhat diving with lifelines etc etc and infinity precautions?
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