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At 12:29 PM 9/15/95, Richard Pyle responded: >> I agree that uniformity of team procedure is of great value. The only >>problem occurs when an individual diver wishes to dive with another team. >In some ways, the same applies to a "team" of two (i.e., buddies). I agree. When my buddy and I go diving, the only difference in our gear that you will notice is the colour. (So we can easily identify each other and our own gear). We also happen to use different backup computers, but there we believe the diversity may actually be an advantage. >Phil [instructing new divers] would force them all to conform to the same >set of standards. His point was that any two of these divers would be >able to get in the water together and know exactly how each other's rigs >were configured, and would know exactly how each would respond in a >certain situation, etc, even if they'd never dived together before. >My philosophy is to *optimize* the rig and proceedures for a particular >set of conditions. The old "generalist/specialist" debate. >By definition, a diver-in-training is not anywhere near ready to be a >"cutting-edge" diver, and should therefore adhere to a different set of >rules. This recognition that the conditions (and therefore the appropriate behavior) are different is the difficult, but very important, distinction that instructors must teach. I have no problem using different standards for different conditions. Then, when the conditions are appropriate for the students to be with me, I do expect that they will do as I do because I will do things which are appropriate for both them and the conditions. >If instructors are to maintain the "do as I say, not as I do" position, >then what is the best way to prevent over-confident students from taking >the "well if he can do it, so can I" approach? I don't have a good answer to this one. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@da*.ne*
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