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Tom Carrol wrote:

>It often seemed to me that there is some "ladder," albiet a rough 
>guide, that could be followed into more and more challenging dives. 

What most people do not realize is that this apprenticeship or
"ladder" should be spread out over years of diving (several hundred dives)!
You don't just wake up one morning and decide that you are going to fly an
F-16 for the Thunderbirds.  It is a long and thorough process where you
start in a high wing single engine trainer and work your way up the ladder
from there.  It seems that in diving and in particular, "technical diving",
most novices and even many of the instructors/agencies want to compress the
tech diving learning curve into 8 hrs of classroom and 3 dives. It's not
going to work.  The number of accidents is going to climb until attitudes
change.  What to do about this situation? Well, either attitudes change or
let natural selection take its course. - Tony

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