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GDI
November 16th, 2006, 08:47 AM
Any questions that you may have will be reviewed and answered by the Board of Directors for the NACD. This thread section will be reviewed on a timely basis and we ask that you understand that it may take a day or two for an official answer to come back to you from the NACD BOD. Questions involving Standards and Procedures as they are written will be answered much more readily based on the current S & P's.
No questions and their corresponding answers should be taken as a means to provide training for cave diving, you must seek out a teaching status cave instructor to learn how to cave dive.
This thread will be based on questions regarding policy, training guidelines and S&P's.
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douglasville diver
February 1st, 2008, 10:07 PM
? does or did WILLIAM HOGARTH MAIN ever exist,nothing on google except some artist that lived around the 1600's. Hard to belive he pionered cave diving.
Dive-aholic
February 2nd, 2008, 12:34 AM
The Wm Main you're getting on a google search is someone different. Cave diver Bill Main is alive and still diving to this day. Cave diving isn't real mainstream so you won't find a lot on specific cave divers doing Internet searches. Buy some cave diving books. You'll see plenty of references to Bill.
Capt Jim Wyatt
February 2nd, 2008, 05:33 AM
? does or did WILLIAM HOGARTH MAIN ever exist,nothing on google except some artist that lived around the 1600's. Hard to belive he pionered cave diving.
Bill Main is alive & well. He lives just outside High Springs, about a mile from me. He is still an active cave diver.
douglasville diver
February 5th, 2008, 09:00 PM
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction,working on going to Zanadu in the not so distant future and I've studied alot on the "HOG" style but have found little on the man who developed such a common sense approach.
Guess I never thought of him as just "BILL"
Doppler
February 6th, 2008, 04:17 PM
Bill Main, Lamar English, Greg Flanagan and many of the folks who pioneered cave exploration and who designed and built the first iterations of gear we take for granted now are very much "still around." But should you be lucky enough to bump into one of them, say at a dive site, you may be surprised by their appraisal of your "HOG' configuration... Bill Main especially. The term minimalist is what springs to mind! His is truly a rock and railroad spike philosophy.
