[donmoore]

In the thread on this a few years ago, it was one of the few times I really blew my cool on db.

This is from an e-mail of Carol Rose, president of the Underwater Society of America (the U.S. CMAS organization that hosts the U.S. Spearfishing Championships and Underwater Hockey in the U.S.).

“CMAS was very clear at their meeting in late November. If athletes dive a competition which CMAS already holds, the athletes may be barred, and the country will certainly 'hear' about it. If the competition offers an event, discipline, whatever that CMAS does NOT offer, then, grudgingly, OK.”

I can’t read the languages in the previous links, but maybe CMAS has pulled their heads out enough to realize they are really making a lot of people mad! As far as Carol Rose’s statement, the only discipline that both AIDA and CMAS used to do was dynamics. Their doctor believed depth disciplines were dangerous for a divers health, and they thought static was too boring for spectators.

This year I plan doing both the U.S. Nationals Spearfishing tournament and an AIDA competition. If they want to kick me out of CMAS, so be it.
don