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> Richard, I know you must realize this but I will say it anyway. What is 
> the cutting edge for sport divers, yourself included, has been done  
> by various military divers and commercial divers for years. Why try 
> to reinvent the wheel? For sport divers to consider one of their own as 
> the "father of tech diving" is a joke. The only thing that anyone in 
> sport diving could be considered the "father of" is in utilizing 
> technology that has been around and used for years by professional divers.

Well, not quite.  The helium, yes.  The physiology yes.  The gear configs
and procedures for bounce dives no. Deep commercial is mostly sat. 
Military is mostly...well, I don't know what military is mostly.  Both
groups have chambers, stand-by divers, surface-supply gas, etc etc etc.  
I've learned a lot from the military and com. divers (what little 
useful specifics besides physiology has been published).  But the 
equipment I use and the techniques I use were not, for the most part, 
developed by either of these guys.

But your right on the big picture.  By "cutting edge" I meant only within 
the context of non-commercial civilian divers...sorry, should have been 
more specific (after all, the standards that were the subject of the 
thread were not for military or com divers....and as you say, I don't 
think many of their standards are realistic for what many of us are 
trying to do).
 
Aloha,
Rich

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