Regulation & record attempts

[Wookie]

I'm told that some of the folks at Coast Guard HQ were some of the "179 users browsing this thread" today. There was a lunch time discussion about closer regulation of dive charter vessels. Take it for what you paid for it.

 

[tomfcrist]

I'm told that some of the folks at Coast Guard HQ were some of the "179 users browsing this thread" today. There was a lunch time discussion about closer regulation of dive charter vessels. Take it for what you paid for it.

USCG policy makers and investigators are a bunch of clowns. They think their OW certification qualifies them to investigate dive incidents and make new policy. They have even gone as far as telling a dive captain to his face that "yall shouldn't be diving that deep" when a diver got bent on a 170' dive...they are clueless.



And for what it's worth, the posts relating to world record attempts belong in an open forum... Not behind the closed doors of T2T.

 

[The Chairman]

That's the real problem when people act so irresponsibly that it results in their death: new regulations. This happened in Orlando during the seventies, when one of the private lakes we were allowed to dive was closed off to us after such a double suicide. The higher the profile, the bigger the knee jerk reaction. Unfortunately, these rules negatively impact everyone with often unintended consequences. Those two divers had no clue that their fidiocy in chasing the deepest dive would stop me from diving a lake I really liked.

 

[Ken Kurtis]

The national command of Coast Guard is on written record stating that they have no jurisdiction over scuba diving. Now, that doesn't mean they won't to exert some authority on a regional/local basis and they'll certainly make some claim that if it happened on a boat, they've got jurisdiction. And it's a thin line between jurisdiction over commercial boat operations (which they do have) and when that boat happens to be conducting diving, they think/claim their jurisdiction extends there as well. Slippery slope and tricky business.