Gresham,
Haribon is the group that paid me to train... which I did along with my own team of trainers developed 10 years before.
When I ran out of the netting material I brought after 5 months...I complained that we cannot continue training without it...and needed more.
They refused to supply or buy more. We had much dialogue.
I lost the argument.
I had to resign rather then go along with the charade and they continued the project with 1 and a half inch mesh gill netting.
[ Later they claimed that a lack of netting was to blame for the failures!!.]
There is a history of initial successes in this reform thing that always sees the office administr
ators trying to save small amounts of money by cutting back on the netting budgets for some reason.
They just won't let the divers have anything to work with and leave them with no recourse but to return to cyanide. Being against the sabatoge of the project I worked on for years with Dr McAllister of the Canadian IMA.... I couldn't bring myself to
just go along with ruining it....and not rock the boat.
"That makes one not a team player I supose."
As a commercial collector, I just wish they would've just cut some office supplies and left us the netting material to work with.
But alas, they were very urban people and not aquarium people, so our needs to create success were not understood.
Steve
PS.
I had the sales rep of the Japanese netting material company Technets in Manila to meet with them as well as the exporters....they both turned him and his products down.
Steve