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At 12:53 PM 9/15/95 -0400, Frank Deutschmann wrote: >[...] >The attitude has literally become one of, if you >are not on a track to dive the 'Doria, you are nothing. > >How to reverse this is, of course, the question. But with all the >financial incentive involved, it won't be easy. How to reverse it? I don't know. One thing I've seen that has really impressed me is the technical divers who are in this more for the "diving" part than for the "technical" part. The divers, and instructors, who have as much fun on a 90' wreck dive or a thousand foot cave penetration as they do on a "big" dive. They are the ones who, by their actions as much as their words, encourage those of us just starting out to take it slow and learn as we go along rather than zipping through a bunch of classes so we can get the cards that let us go play with the "big boys". They're the people who demonstrate that one can be a good diver and have fun and maybe even accomplish something of use to the diving community no matter where one's personal limits are set. It's not the agencies or the shops or the equipment vendors who are creating the market for this stuff, it's the divers. I don't think the marketing done by the agencies has nearly as much to do with the popularity of technical diving as do the attitudes of the folks already doing the technical diving. --tab -- Tracey [Baker] Wagner tab@pa*.co* *** New Jersey SCUBA Diving Info at: http://www.panix.com/~tab/scuba.html *** "Far beneath the sea, the past and the present come together as one, and we have been allowed to touch them both." -- Brad Sheard, _Beyond Sportdiving_
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