Quote Originally Posted by skip View Post
You guys don't get it. Bending the rules (bending? or creating?) is the only way to progress to rules that actually save lives. i think that's what aanslie (sp?) is beating his head against the wall to express. exley is dead. he was a thinking diver who gave us the stone tablet, but he didn't say do what I say and stop thinking about it forever more.

And to splatter it all over the internet is today's best way to get divers to think for themselves and save their lives. Those who disagree will at least have considered, or reconsidered, their reasoning (a good thing). Even those who don't participate will hear about it from those who do and the trickle down effect will improve cave diving safety for us all.

Don't tell me that the rules of cave diving are sacred and never to be changed, that experience and logical thought have nothing to offer to the betterment of our safety. I may or may not agree with aainslee (sp?), but his insistence that there is still much to learn is undeniable.

-skip

Thinking divers are a good thing, and I believe rules can and should change, if for the better. However, the rules are working if they are followed properly and no one can deny this. I just don't see a need to fix something that is not broken.