Quote Originally Posted by Nitrogenius View Post
Well this is why I raise the questions to the instructors out there..
for which we may never know does not compute for me. I do not follow rules because these are rules. I follow rules for which I understand the reason. I am hesitent breaking rules as I just might not see the reason, so I ask for reasoning.
If no reason can be brought up such rule seems to have no justification..
I can follow your simplification train of thought thoug. That makes some sense, however is still a bit weak. IMHO..



Can't comment on specific FL caves as mentioned earlier..



What would stop them from entering an Intro dive from there ?

While I can't comment on ACTUALLY why the rule was originally posited, I can offer a probable basis.

Sheck and other early cave divers, after reviewing fatalities and incidents surrounding this sport came to understand empiracally, human nature.

In analyzing incidents especially incidents involving exceeding training, a baseline of human nature can be drawn. We are creatures of habit - good and bad. We tend towards routinization and route patterns. Our complacency springs from familiarization and repetition, and in that acclimatization to cutting corners when there is no perceived consequence, we all fall prey. We will repeat bad behavior when there appears to be no harm to us.

Simple Traverses will INEVITABLY lead to complex ones. ITS HUMAN NATURE.

Even the knowledge that Olsen is "right there" doesn't change that it is a blind traverse the first time -despite being attested to by divers and maps... Peacock is easy... See?

We made it- GREAT! that's not so hard... Next challenge....

No traverses means no traverses. No chance for the human nature to begin the slippery slope towards complacency and acclimatization.

I think it's a rule worth keeping.


Dan-O

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