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Hi Folks I may be sticking my neck out on this one but... In the good old Down Under (no we don't dive with croc's) some of our dive shops are already offering SSI nitrox speciality certification. I belive that it is available both as a seperate course and as part of you Adv Op Wa. I am finding it hard to belive that Dr Sheck is realy no longer with us, has this information been confirmed by anyone yet.A great pioneer and a great loss to his family as well as the comunity of divers. On Apr 11, 7:50pm, <RICK515@de*.co*> wrote: > Subject: SSI/Nitrox > Below is a message posted this morning which has been edited for brevity, > regarding Scuba Schools International and Nitrox Courses. I forwarded > the message to SSI without names or e-mail addresses. > Below this message is a reply which I am posting for Ed Christini, > President of SSI on the matter. > > From: IN%"fhd@pa*.co*" "Frank Deutschmann" 10-APR-1994 22:50:44.62 > Subj: RE: Course/Certification Proliferation > > (Several Paragraphs Deleted) > > >Other stuff: I heard a rumor the other day that SSI may be developing > >a Nitrox course. Any content to that? With the popularity SSI has > >gained of late (seems like lots of PADI defections), that could really > >help Nitrox and help with cert stds. I wonder how Ed Betts (ANDI > >owner) will take this: his shop is SSI. Though I haven't had the guts > >to ask him... > > -frank > -- > Below is Ed Christini's response: > _________________________________________________________________________ > Faxed Letter OCR Scanned > > April 11, 1994 > > Rick Williams > Answer Associates > P.O. Box 397 > Newburgh, IN 47629-0397 > > Dear Rick, > > Thank you for your fax of April 11. I appreciate you forwarding a copy of > your e-mail. > > First, I would like to state that Ed Betts has not been, nor is he currently > an SSI Dealer. > > Second, as a point of clarification, SSI is, as always does, trying to keep > an open mind with the issue of Nitrox. > > At DEMA 1994, I was approached by a few SSI Dealers who would like SSI to > sanction a Nitrox Course. In response we are conducting a survey of our > dealers to find out how Nitrox impacts them and to what extent SSI should > be involved. > > At this time we are simply gathering data from SSI dealers on the issue of > Nitrox Diving. There will be an article in the upcoming Dive Business Intl. > (the SSI News Magazine rw.), regarding the comments we have received so far. > I must admit to this point we have had a very small number of responses to > our Nitrox survey. > > Whatever the outcome, SSI will take the appropriate action. > > Please feel free to post this as an "official" reply > > Sincerely, > Ed Christini > President > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@opal.com'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@opal.com'. >-- End of excerpt from <RICK515@de*.co*> -- ******************************************************************** Terry McCracken GEC ALSTHOM Information Technology Software Support Engineer Ph: 61 2 415 0509 terrym@ns*.co*.au* Fax: 61 2 417 8635
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