adder70:
GUE is right! GUE is right! Diving GUE is DIR!
Which clearly indicates that you are not GUE trained.
I am surprised that this thread has continued but this is actually a good thing. While you were all having the discussion continue I was out diving or working on my garage. I have read the complete thread and I am taking note of your points. I have addressed this and other things with the training director.
Please allow me to respond to the above statements(with a tone of humour).
Your right I'm not GUE trained, I am trained by DWW! (Doing What Works) and therefore I feel I am free to dive the world.
Am I DIR? Yes I am and I believe so because I do:
Diving
In
Restrictions
Soggy did make a note of your hose routing in your avatar. I am surprised that you are wearing a snorkel (on the right side). Please tell me you are not GUE trained?
adder70:
Did you not catch the reference to GUE not wanting singles? GUE is right. Anyone who disagrees is wrong, will die, and will disgrace the entire diving community with their incompetence!
While many of you are arguing these points I have to look at the fact that many of you were recently trained at the intro level. In fact many of you were trained at this level by NACD instructors. So are any of the instructors from other agencies not competent?
Questions to all involved in this thread and those who will or wish to be::
Did you not know that when you signed on to this course that you were in fact signing onto a single tank cave class?
Did your instructor not explain the standards and expectations following your training?
Did your instructor not mention the process that would permit diving in doubles?
Do you consider that at the cavern level you are not diving in all the much of a overhead that this should not warrant doubles?
The record of fatalities of intro divers wearing a single tank is "0, zelch, zippo, notaone". Say what you want about stats and how they can be made to fit the argument, but in the end dead is dead.
I agree those who will break the rules will do so regardless of what they are wearing for a gas supply it is in their nature to do so and they will do so. In the end however should they die they are added to the stats. In the cave diving community we call this accident analysis. It is accident analysis that drives our S&P's