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They all have to have ..allegedly... scuba certification.
Being long time commercial divers, they perhaps confuse "all around water knowledge" and skills with deepwater knowledge and skills, which are, as you know, not the same.
Thats a good follow-up question for the next phone call.
After a sea cucumber death in 1995, we had a one day seminar on diving issues and safety for the villages on the East side of Tonga.
The death was a local and the cause of great enough concern to serve as a basis for banning hookah compressor diving as a safety measure in Tonga...ignorant of the fact that scuba is no guarantee of safe practice either.
Depth is still depth...time down is still time down.
If this causes a ban on SCUBA as well...only shallow fish will go forth as in Solomon Islands.
Steve
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