Quote: (Originally Posted by
JPJones)
No we were not dum enough to train our selves. Tom Mount and I spent a lot of time together before it came out and I borrowed one of his Rebreathers (an Inspiration with HammerHead electronics) to get time on before we started the testing and I did way more than one class.
So then Tom trained himself.
Who did it is not the point. Someone
had to. Quote:
So all of us have cards that were earned the same way everyone else has had to.
Nice try.
It is simply not possible for everyone to "earn them the same way everyone else has to" with
any new rebreather.
At least
one card must be "minted" out of whole cloth for any specific unit, given the current "state of the industry" in which agencies
insist that all CCR cards be unit-specific.
It is
not possible for it to be otherwise, because the first person to dive a given unit
cannot receive training on it, as there is no person with experience on it to provide same!
Therefore it is perfectly legitimate for the designer of a homebuild,
by industry standards, to print their own card, since the
first card for
any unit must be printed with exactly the same pre-existing unit-specific qualifications.