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One must have a license to drive a car on public roadways. There are police officers on those roadways. There are other drivers on those roadways. Many of those other drivers have cell phones and can call the police and can easily report another driver if that other driver is not licensed. Hey, look at how many unlicensed drivers there are. Of course, we usually learn they are unlicensed after they have crashed.
Now, imagine there are no police or other drivers around. Who is to stop an unlicensed driver?
How is it different in cave diving?
Licensing divers may make some people feel good about how they are protecting idiots, but it won't actually protect anyone.
The license to drive a car is an interesting point of comparison.
Cave Diving is far more difficult and demanding, and yet some people like the Spiveys feel they do not need to get training from an accredited instructor and teach their kid (being only an OC diver) not just plain OC diving, but Cave Diving (with the sad results we see with this incident).
Makes no sense to me!
Generally we expect that for our safety all other drivers are equally trained and have a driving license, and yet some people (far too many) feel that it is O.K. to have people like the Spiveys do as they please in a cave and accept diving the same cave with them.
Makes no sense to me!
Police (at least in Europe) makes random stops and checks on the road to verify the driver has license and insurance (well before any accident) and catch out quite a few people with no license/insurance, and yet some people (far too many) accept that when it comes to cave diving there should be no checks in place and people like the Spiveys should cave dive just because "they want to" (when they CAN'T in reality and then pay with their lives).
Makes no sense to me!
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