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From: GE0013@SIUCVMB.BITNET (Roy Miller)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Avoiding Things That Sting In SCUBA
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Date: 22 Mar 90 19:35:22 GMT
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Hi Pat,

You recently indicated that "The only trouble with saying you
shouldn't touch anything when SCUBA diving is that blind people are
much more likely to touch things inadvertently!"  I can certainly
understand that.  However, I would hope that no one (blind or
sighted) would make the mistake of diving alone.  Rather, we always
dive with at least one diving "buddy."  And I would further hope
that a blind diver would always be safety-minded enough to always
have a sighted person for their diving buddy.  If so, that diving
buddy should very effectively be able to "steer" the blind diver
away from things that look like they might sting if touched
inadvertently.

                                ROY E. MILLER
                       THE PROFESSOR WHO NEVER LISTENS,
                          BUT WHOSE EYES HEAR A LOT
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