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On 8/7/98 11:01, Todd Leonard, toddl@in*.co* posted:
>All that's being suggested is that individuals, namely the
>boat captains, refuse to participate in the rash of needless
>death that's happening right in front of their eyes. It's a
>call for them to recognize the patterns in these fatalities
>that should be so painfully apparent by now, and for them to
>realize that there are a few simple things that can be done
>to *significantly* reduce risk to those around them. It's a
>call for them to recognize that willful avoidance of these
>safety techniques is not an attractive trait in a diver, and
>that catering to such divers is not a sound business practice
>in the long run.
All right, let's go there for a moment.
I've been avoiding this avenue because I thought the principles that
apply here were obvious, but maybe they aren't.
What do we do about the "captains" who are adamantly opposed to, for
instance, the DIR system?
What do we do about the captains who take your directive to heart, and
begin by stating that NO ONE dives off this boat without double bladdered
bondage wings? What do we do with captains who refuse to let soloist dive
at all?
What do we do with DMs who bench anyone who doesn't have a snorkel? Who
doesn't carry ditchable weights? Who breathes the long hose? Who has
bondage wings? Who doesn't have bondage wings?
On, and on, and on, and on...
I agree that the DIR system is the best in the world.
But not everyone does, and some of them claim to be captains, and there's
THOUSANDS of Dive "masters" who haven't got a clue. Do we have them
enforce their views, too? Separating out the legal issue, which I agree
is a good idea for this discussion, do we let every fucking dive shop
monkey work himself into a lather and change dive profiles, based on his
13 PADI dives?
In short, once we step over the edge on this slippery slope, where does
it end?
"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you want to live forever?"
-First Sergeant Dan Daley
"Who wants to live forever?"
-Freddie Mercury
"I swear, I'm going to live forever"
-Jon Bon Jovi
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