Intresting ideas Bill.
Competition licens.
Recreational diving is none of our business.
International aida ranking is.
To get ranking you need membership in aida.
In my local club in Sweden I get kicked out if i train alone. No more pool acess.
Aida could do the same. Membership only if you abide by the rules.
No training alone - a very simple rule - and we all more or less know what training is. Holding ones breath under water is training. At sea it involves a rope, in pool it involves length over 25 meters, and non moving breatholds more than a minute (could be a definition).
Of course I understand that this could evolve into a beurocratic document of rules defining what training is or is not. But why not leave that for the moment and just write into the statutes:
"Ranked athletes do not train alone - if they do - they get no ranking for 12 months".
Its a statement - a policy - we dont really have to organize a squadron of people investigating our athletes. The obvious cases will "surface" by themselves. In Sweden we had an athlete training alone (without the direct supervision of another freediver) - he will not get ranking ever again - he is dead.
Sebastian
PS But if Aida board wants to keep their atheletes alive they just need to monitor some 10-20 people in the ranks. The ones involved in NR/WR ballast dives. they are the ones getting DCS and dieing.
Competition licens.
Recreational diving is none of our business.
International aida ranking is.
To get ranking you need membership in aida.
In my local club in Sweden I get kicked out if i train alone. No more pool acess.
Aida could do the same. Membership only if you abide by the rules.
No training alone - a very simple rule - and we all more or less know what training is. Holding ones breath under water is training. At sea it involves a rope, in pool it involves length over 25 meters, and non moving breatholds more than a minute (could be a definition).
Of course I understand that this could evolve into a beurocratic document of rules defining what training is or is not. But why not leave that for the moment and just write into the statutes:
"Ranked athletes do not train alone - if they do - they get no ranking for 12 months".
Its a statement - a policy - we dont really have to organize a squadron of people investigating our athletes. The obvious cases will "surface" by themselves. In Sweden we had an athlete training alone (without the direct supervision of another freediver) - he will not get ranking ever again - he is dead.
Sebastian
PS But if Aida board wants to keep their atheletes alive they just need to monitor some 10-20 people in the ranks. The ones involved in NR/WR ballast dives. they are the ones getting DCS and dieing.
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