Posted by CalAbDiver on July 09, 2001 at 17:48:53:
In Reply to: Re: wow! PADI certified almost 100,000 new D/Ms Mike ... posted by MHK on July 09, 2001 at 17:36:57:
"Diving on the Yukon" gets back to your original point of a debate [hear-say] that you and KelpHead had in the past about whether it was "appropriate" for non-tech trained divers to "rec dive" to artificial wrecks like the Yukon, or even get near it, or even go down to look at it.
As far as I am concerned, in this particular debate, my actions speak for themselves: I myself have enrolled in a TDI tech course. I am putting $1500 dollars where my mouth is. THEN i will start to wreck dive, and NOT BEFORE.
I am glad that TDI and DIR and GUE are raising and addressing issues like this. I realize that TDI is the "easiest" of those 3. I am not proud! I am very practical minded! And I always did like Canadians, although they do talk funny and have strange expressions up there [Bret G. who founded TDI is a Canook].
See you laterrrr!