David Hale
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                    03/13/2002 12:36
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>Most of us have seen examples of incompetent or
>unprepared divers being dropped onto shallow reefs or
>wrecks. Imagine a similar scenario where such a diver
>is being dropped onto a 200' deep wreck with a 1-2
>knot current ripping along.

>Most of us have seen or known careless or clueless
>divers who can barely put a regulator onto a tank, or
>maybe who have their regs overhauled every 10 years.
>Imagine divers like that owning and using rebreathers.

This among others where good points.  I guess since I think of myself as a
competent diver(and I realize that doesn't make it so) I was more
interested in the quality of the program, not the wisdom of marketing it.
Sometime it's the questions we don't ask that give us the best answers
however and that seems to be the case here.  While I would still like to
hear some opionions on the quality of the program I now find myself
thinking about the points you made.  I think however it's like the Dutch
Boy with his finger in the hole of the damn.  There is no way to stop the
coming flood....

>Since Mike Wallace has the tech instructor's viewpoint, I hope he will
chime in on this >discussion.

Me too!