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Old 23-12-05, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Howard Payne

There is a serious point behind this post, before it started "doing a YD". People have died this year in not insignificant numbers - it's a fact - I didn't make it up. If you look at the circumstances surrounded some of these incidents - there is a pattern whether people choose to accept it or not. We can choose to learn from that or just bury our heads in the sand and let it all happen again next year. I wouldn't want that for one of my loved ones. It wasn't a flippant remark - sorry if it came accross that way
So, what is this point then? That these people wouldn't have died if GUE trained? That the two VERY experienced UK divers who persished this year wouldn't have died if they had done Fundies?

The sheer numbers of dives done in the UK will always produce fatalites, but a single agency is not the answer. It is not the be all and end all and when - not if - we see the first fatality from the training agency you seem convinced will solve it all I am sure we will hear disgraceful cries of "I told you so" from some quarters. I will not be amongst those who do this, but please don't think that training is an antidote to human behaviour. Hjman behaviour will always break through and circumstance beyond control of man can, and do, occur.
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