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Scal,

I dont know how you can say that my comments about the "dive team" are despicable. They are fact. As a professional diver, professional instructor, technical instructor, mixed gas instructor, rescue specialist instructor, expert repair technician, and former member of the Cousteau Team Project Ocean Search, with thousands of hours of experience, and having trained over 1000 people, I have the background and credentials to call it like it is . The fact of the matter from a stand point of water rescue, the WFD are untrained and unqualified. They have been for years and continue to be. If that upsets you and you think that my comments are despicable, so be it. But I am not going to tailor my comments to anyone when presenting fact.

As I have said many times, the WFD is highly skilled in their work. Unfortunately, water rescue is not one of the areas that they excel in, and that point has been shown to be true on several occasions. I fail to see how my comments were of a nature of personal attack, despicable, or out of line. They were based solely on past performance.

If you would like to have a discussion of technical nature based upon fact,methods, and results, I would be more than happy to discuss.