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  Re the many flames that have been on net:
  If divers on and off the net keep on flaming each other instead of keeping
diving in order and watching out for the authoritarian government types that
always lurk in the bushes waiting for something to jump on to control it, the
`flames' that divers will meet will be those in police and inshore naval
patrol base and inshore fisheries patrol base incinerators destroying scuba
diving gear seized from civilians caught diving without a (very hard to get)
diver's licence and official permit for the dive.
  In the 1970's I read that an attempt by the USA state of California to
impose a rather tight scuba diver's licence law (the excuse was sport diving
casualties, the likely cause was authoritarianism for its own sake) was
stopped by massive public protest after widespread publicity just in time by
sport diving monthly periodicals (that was long before the internet appeared).
That scare brought together just in time several USA main sport diving
organizations that previously argued among themselves about this and that.

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