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- From: michael@cs.huji.ac.il (Michael Naaman)
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- Subject: Re: WHO IS EXPERIENCED
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:27:07 -0600
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- I think experience can be concieved as the accumulation of skills.
- As was noted before, you cannot put a line and say - from here you're
- experienced. But, considering diving (as the issue IS here), I think you
- can say that an experienced diver is the one who knows HIS OWN limits. On
- the basic courses, you learn the general limits. A newly certified diver
- will stay whithin the limits (if he does), because these are the limits he
- was taught, and he partially knows why. A more experienced diver is the one
- who UNDERSTAND the limits (and maybe knows what stands beyond them, theor-
- etically, as taught in highr courses, or from personal expeience), and can
- refine the general and global limits, to meet his own capabillities. There
- are many divers, who ignore the rules, because they think that if nothing
- happend in 10 unsafe dives, nothing will happen in the 11th one. This is
- exactly the OPPOSITE of what I mean. These divers are usually the worst
- divers, because they don't UNDERSTAND what they are doing, and I wouldn't
- take them as a buddy.
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- Considering youself an exprienced diver is dependant on how you
- define EXPERIENCED, but (I think) this is something that comes both with
- time and with the people around you considering you as an experienced diver.
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