Yet again, the sages refuse to acknowledge that if the accident rate the industry "enjoyed" during their hayday were to exist today, we'd be cleaning up a smoking hole every three days. Improved technologies, strong SOPs and better training are largely the reason why that rate has been slashed so significantly. Are things today perfect? Not hardly, there is still much to do. But rolling back to the clock to the days of proving our manhood and making it up as we go along is not the way forward. If it were, things would never have changed in the first place.