Seriously? That's like saying the government mandated requirement for automobiles to have seatbelts, encouraged automakers to slack off on making a safe car. I work in the Quality Control world ensuring compliance from government contractors. Your statement defies logic.
And as soon as they introduced airbags, more drivers started driving without their seatbelts.
I can't recall where DD has insisted anyone use a CO monitor. I can only recall seeing him post how everyone gets to make their own choices.
Quoting from his sig: "
You can test the tanks you breathe or - dive on hope. :reaper:
Testing is safer. See..." and "
Diver personal responsibility for dives includes taking responsibility for the gas -
not just blindly trusting a source." While that's not exactly insisting, it is declaring that divers who don't invest big bucks to lug yet another piece of sensitive electronic equipment on to a wet dive boat in order to check for something that is statistically almost non-existent, are being irresponsible, diving on hope, unsafe, and blind.
I have no issues with Dandy wearing his life jacket on the dive boat, but if he started in on the rest of us, calling us blind, unsafe, and irresponsible because we don't wear a life jacket on the boat, I'd get equally offended.
On Coz a dive op just (this week) completed installation of new Bauer compressors, dual (redundant) Analox CO monitoring systems with alarms and auto shutoff, and a membrane nitrox system. With the increasing awareness of CO as a problem, that expensive investment runs counter to your statement. As it stands I think they'll have plenty of business. If Meridiano's reputation falters, what do you think the outcome will be?
When the expensive investment is used as a marketing tool, it can be written off as advertising costs. Given the hype about CO, I have no doubt that any dive shop that plays on the unfounded fears of CO can make a buck out of it.
We all get it Mossman. You don't believe in the use of CO monitors. I respect your opinion. I'd appreciate that respect in return.
Then please respect me by not calling me irresponsible, diving on hope, unsafe, and blind as DandyDon has done, just because I fail to follow his uninformed lead.