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Ronnie Bell wrote:

> The only thing formal education (can I call dive 
> training "formal"?) does is condense the time frame it takes to accumulate 
> knowledge and provide you the benefit of others experience.

Oooo!!  I LIKE that!  Very well said! It took me a year and a half to go
from an experienced air diver to a weenie trimix diver (which the courses
can do in a couple of weeks).  Also, believe it or not, the "formal"
training programs probably cost less money, depending on what kind of
access you have to the experienced people offering advice.  As I've said
before, I have a garage full of "expensive mistakes", and several shelves
of diving physiology books that probably cost me close to $2K, all told.

I believe the quality of education is higher if you do it the slow way, 
but *only* if you have the right discipline and enough patience not to let 
your confidence get ahead of you.

> He who knows not and knows he knows not is a student teach him,
> He who knows and knows not he knows is asleep awake him.
> He who knows and knows he knows is a techer learn from him.
> He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool shun him.

I had to read that several times to get it right, but it was worth it.

Aloha,
Rich

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