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Old 19-February-2008, 08:06 AM
JonClarke JonClarke is offline
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Originally Posted by Ilya View Post
Because the latter is not paid for by the public. Well-meaning efforts to end, or to regulate heavily, extremely dangerous activities such as cave diving exist, but do not get much traction.
In Australia regulation of cave diving has been extremely successful and reduced the acident rate to effectively zero. There have been no fatalities for many years, despite a great increase in the activity.

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