I didn't say that Sheck was a DIR-diver. He wasn't. Clearly. If you read anything about him, that much is instantly obvious.
The point I've made all along is that GUE does NOT have anything close to an accident-free or death-free record in terms of the divers carrying their cards. However, if you're known to be a GUE-card-carrying diver and die while underwater, its a good bet that GI3 will call you names posthumously. For that matter he'll do so whether you have one of GUE's cards or not.
WKPP has a death-free record in the last few years. HOWEVER, WKPP does not have a death free record in total, and I don't believe GI3 is in charge any more anyway.
Nor does WKPP have an incident-free record - not even close.
GUE divers die just like every other kind of diver.
Most of the time divers die due to one of two reasons:
1. They do something stupid, or a combination of things that are stupid, underwater.
OR
2. They have some kind of medical emergency underwater from which nobody would be reasonably expected to survive. In many cases there is no prior warning and no REASONABLE way (that is, without expensive, invasive - and dangerous - tests) to know that they were at risk), but in some they are diving explicitly against medical advice.
Those two things account for virtually ALL diver deaths, irrespective of the agency involved.
MOST divers who die do so while explicitly violating some part of their training either explicitly or implicitly. Most cave divers die because they aren't cave-certified and lack the training and proper equipment to be in an overhead environment. That accounts for something like NINETY PERCENT of cave fatalities.
GUE, like all other agencies, plays "hush hush" when someone who they certified screws up and buys it. They are no better (and no worse) than IANTD, TDI, PADI, SSI or any other agency in this regard.
To the best of my knowledge NO agency takes "credit" for and is forthcoming with infomration about their graduates' "own goals", and I've yet to see any PUBLIC data from DAN identifying the agency (or agencies) who issued the card(s) that a particular victim held prior to his or her demise.
The point I've made all along is that GUE does NOT have anything close to an accident-free or death-free record in terms of the divers carrying their cards. However, if you're known to be a GUE-card-carrying diver and die while underwater, its a good bet that GI3 will call you names posthumously. For that matter he'll do so whether you have one of GUE's cards or not.
WKPP has a death-free record in the last few years. HOWEVER, WKPP does not have a death free record in total, and I don't believe GI3 is in charge any more anyway.
Nor does WKPP have an incident-free record - not even close.
GUE divers die just like every other kind of diver.
Most of the time divers die due to one of two reasons:
1. They do something stupid, or a combination of things that are stupid, underwater.
OR
2. They have some kind of medical emergency underwater from which nobody would be reasonably expected to survive. In many cases there is no prior warning and no REASONABLE way (that is, without expensive, invasive - and dangerous - tests) to know that they were at risk), but in some they are diving explicitly against medical advice.
Those two things account for virtually ALL diver deaths, irrespective of the agency involved.
MOST divers who die do so while explicitly violating some part of their training either explicitly or implicitly. Most cave divers die because they aren't cave-certified and lack the training and proper equipment to be in an overhead environment. That accounts for something like NINETY PERCENT of cave fatalities.
GUE, like all other agencies, plays "hush hush" when someone who they certified screws up and buys it. They are no better (and no worse) than IANTD, TDI, PADI, SSI or any other agency in this regard.
To the best of my knowledge NO agency takes "credit" for and is forthcoming with infomration about their graduates' "own goals", and I've yet to see any PUBLIC data from DAN identifying the agency (or agencies) who issued the card(s) that a particular victim held prior to his or her demise.
