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| Originally Posted by NotDeadYet No offence but that's absolute bollocks.
I got into tech diving in the early 90's and I don't remember seeing any mention of GI3 until about 95/96. Tech diving was well established long before that. Billy Deans wrote the first technical training courses and did far more than anyone else at building tech diving up; IANTD, TDI & ANDI had been going for years; NSS-CDS & NACD had been running cave diving courses commercially for a long time.
He didn't pioneer the expression "oxygen window" either. I don't know who did but it certainly wasn't him. In fact, he didn't pioneer a hell of a lot. Everything he knew about cave diving came from Parker Turner, kit developments came from Bill Gavin & Bill Main and general diving from Billy Deans. JJ did far more behind the scenes to establish what is DIR but had the good sense to act normal.
Sorry if I sound a bit narcy but a. I'm hungover and b. there are too many people that think technical diving is a recent invention.
I heartily recommend everyone with an interest in tech diving to read "Mixed Gas Diving" by Mount, Gilliam et al and "Deep Diving" by Brett Gilliam. Both are extremely good at establishing the time line on the development of what is tech diving. |
google his name brother and see what comes up on the wkipida site