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dan
as you can see by the "few" responses that the cocept of "you" setting
the requirements for qualifications is not going over well.
we all seem to agree on the fact that the instructor & the instruction should
be unquestionably of the highest quality.
i have always had a problem with people who think the they are perfect (or
always
correct) & that they are the ones who should decide for everyone else what is
the
right way to do things.
you posed a bunch of questions to me about my grandmother & other items that
i think have been more eloquently addressed by others (thak you jammer).
i have one for you.
you are inn your perfect phyisical condition (i know this because i have
read your
chest pounding discusions with tom :-) , but what happens to you ten years
from now if you happen to fall off the wagon & gain 20 or 25 lbs?
(unfortunatly in life things change & you might get sick & gain the wt or you
might have a nervous breakdown & start eating uncontrolably:-).
who will decide for you hat that point that you are fit or not to continue to
dive?
are you actually proposing that we should only "control" the new people but
forget
about the current divers?
there are already physical specifications in all of the programs that i am
aware of.
i see no reason to change them. the istructors should be capable of
determining if a person is physicaly able to complet the certification & do
the dives (in a safe manor).
yes i agree with all who question the ability of instructors who "cheat" on
that responsibility.
we all are disturbed by the people that die in this sport no matter what level
of diving they have reached. but i hate to tell you that the number (although
even one is too many) is not "huge" as you said. the diving related deaths in
the entire world has been under 100 for years. the huge number of those occur
at depths below 130ft
deep diving has its problems as does all of diving. IMHO the biggest problem
is lack of experience not lack of conditioning. this is a problem that is
rampant at all levels of diving today.
hank
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