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Marc Dufour <mdufour@CA*.OR*> wqrote:- > How such a law (like the French prohibition, for example) can be enforced > anyways? (1) In detail, what is that prohibition? > Does everybody who goes out at sea has to log a diveplan to a central > authority? Or does every outgoing diveship gets inspected ... That may come, if we don't watch out, if enforcement technology makes it possible. Else, as I said, the flames won't be `email flames' but those in sea patrol base incinerators destroying seized unauthorized scuba gear. Pastor Neimoller (a German church priest in the time of Hitler) said "They came for [each minority group in turn], but I am not [in any of those groups], so I did not speak out. Then they came for me, and there was none left to speak out for me.". There are always clever people who would find work for out-of-work busybodies by making them into extra enforcement men. Many of these rules are no consideration of diving/etc practicality, but fear of change, wanting to stay with what one knows, and sheer plain patrollism and controllism. I suspect that we divers have been nearer than commonly thought to having ALL diving put under a tight naval or industrial inspectorate, prove need for dive, show licence to possess diving gear, log plans beforehand, etc etc. Down with all such controllism-for-its-own-sake!
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