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George,

I am curious as to whether or not the WKPP standards and procedures will be
available to those like myself who teach Tech diving for a living. If your
standards are better than those that are currently being used by other
training agencies, then Instructors like myself will either use them to
influence the other agencies to change (as you suggested), or we will switch
agencies (not good for them) or start another (for which I have no time to
do).
Fortunately, the agencies do leave "flexability" for us to teach what we know
to be right, even if it is not written, or perhaps written incorrectly, in
their standards. And as we all know, as the industry grows, the standards
will change as they are meant to address a diverse diving population as
opposed to a specific population. (I am not defending IANTD or any other
agency here.)

I have seen the ill effects of poorly trained Instructors teaching even
poorer trained students, and have personnally recovered the bodies of such.
Tradgedys like those are inexcuseable, and unfortunately the technical
training agencies do not conform to a common ground in training standards
that might prevent such accidents from happening.

Some of you on this list dive "tech diving" Others, like myself, teach it.
And unfortunately, we need an agency affiliation, whether we like it or not,
to teach it. Just because an Instructor has an agency affiliation, it does
not make him, or her, a good or bad Instructor. 

So George, how about those standards?

Raimo

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