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On Fri, 15 Apr 1994 ddoolett@me*.ad*.ed*.au* wrote:

> We have taught ourselves, drawing on a 
> knowledge base derived from a great deal of operational experience (I 
> am the baby of the group with only 15 years diving), information kindly 
> and freely given by anyone we have asked, and my background as a diving 
> medical technician and physiologist with a long term interest in diving 
> medicine. As it stands now, we mix our own gases, service our gear, 
> write our own tables etc. and are a self-contained group.  I am sure 
> there are others out there doing this, it is not that hard.  I suspect
> existing ANDI or IANTD course would be of limited educational value to me and 
> other such people.  My only motivation for getting ANDI or IANTD 
> certification would be if such was necessary to by a gas mix or get 
> access to a dive site outside of my own stomping grounds.  I believe 
> such self-regulated certifications for technical diving are necessary, 
> this has been proved by the CDAA which has eliminated cave diving deaths 
> in Australia since its inception in 1974, but motivated by wanting to 
> channel finite resource (time and money) most effectively I would like 
> to avoid doing any technical diving courses that duplicated what I have 
> taught myself.  I would appreciate hearing from any ANDI, IANTD or others 
> about how I might get appropriate certification.


Ditto.

Aloha,

Richard Pyle

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