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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 ... > 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. Perhaps this is an admission that the current american system of many agencies competing for the diving public's cash is a failure, in the sense that it cannot ensure that divers will dive safely... So, this could mean that the European system of federated diving clubs that are strictly non-profit is doing a better job of training divers... It seems that this kind of "regulation" is the right thing. But it's too bad that the American system is being slowly exported to the rest of the world. -- ============================================================ -- I prefer to give a bit of my liberty to an elected government rather than to unelected corporations with selfish economic agendas. ** Marc Dufour ** [\] ACUC 6 31874 ** http://WWW.CAM.ORG/~mdufour **
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