Not another patch / c card for them to pin in your book. Sit throgh a slide show and get a c card with 4 dives thing. What ever happened to mentorship ? I joined a dive club just find people who dive and see what kind of diveing there was out of NYC. I cant imagine the "scuba network" offering tech cources ? Most instructers are the padi varariety and turn there noses at doubles , go tinkering arounf with a pony and think there doing tech. Its surprising how far they go with just an al 30 pony. I may get you out of a wreck , but you will blow off any deco , and may very likely do a screaming accent once the pony goes empty. Most just do not think things through delibratly and thuroughly , and then they blindly go buy the small stuff. Like trey said , some times its not the number of dives , or how long youve been diving , but the quality of the diving. Remember the dive mate that went into a room on the san Diego got turned around , couldent find the doo , as there was a bulkhead and cul sac . Had only a pony and did not run a line. Then you got the guys who just inconsideratly cut lines , wiht out checking if there some one on the end of the line. Padi is just way to comercialized , noui is better , in that there program requires more cource work. Instruction up hear is a real game of russion ruellette , Each one has his own style , and has there own "multi level" hoops to go through for half a dozen cources , and that deos not include boat fees. At 06:21 PM 4/8/2000 +0200, Ingemar Lundgren wrote:=20 >>>> <excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><color><param>0000,00 00,ffff</param= ><smaller>No people with bad health condition should not be allowed to teach! That should be obvious to any agency. =20 I=B4m not surprised though that NSS has instructors like Renneker. The quality of the instructors are getting worse every year much due to the different agencies trying to compete with the largest nr of instructors. Things are going to get even worse when PADI starts teaching tech diving. It=B4s a scary thought.=20 </smaller></color></fontfamily> =20 =20 <bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><color><param>0000,0000, ffff</param><b= igger><bigger><bigger>>PADI Heads Into Technical Diving</bigger></bigger></bigger></color></fontfamily></bold>& lt;color><param>0= 000,0000,ffff</param><bigger><bigger><fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param>=20 </fontfamily></bigger><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>PADI announces its plans to unveil the new PADI TecRec program later this year. The TecRec program, which will offer training for diving beyond the conventional limits of recreational diving, answers the growing call from PADI Instructors for a valid, professionally designed instructional system in technical diving.</fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>=20 </bigger></fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>"TecRec will appeal to divers interested in venturing beyond recreational limits," says Karl Shreeves, Vice President of Technical Development for Diving Science and Technology (DSAT), PADI's instructional product development corporate affiliate. "It gives PADI Instructors a way to meet this interest with a program grounded in state-of-the-art instructional design." </fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger> </bigger></fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>Initial TecRec offerings planned include courses in deep diving and specialized activities, with ties to PADI recreational specialty courses that already exist. Shreeves says the courses' design will help safely bridge the gap between recreational diving experience and the demands of technical diving. It will also streamline the technical training process. "Sound instructional design eliminates inefficiencies, reinforces and confirms critical skills, and streamlines the learning/teaching processes." says Shreeves, "So PADI Instructors can expect TecRec to differ substantially from the tech courses out there now." </fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger> </bigger></fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>With TecRec programs currently in initial development, PADI plans to offer a first-look at TecRec course materials at PADI Member Conference 2000 in Turks and Caicos at the end of October, with a major roll-out at the DEMA Show 2001 in New Orleans, LA, USA, next January. </fontfamily></bigger></color><excerpt> <fontfamily><param>Tahoma</param><smaller>-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- <bold>Fr=E5n:</bold> Mike Bruic [mailto:mikebruic@di*.co*] <bold>Skickat:</bold> den 7 april 2000 00:38 <bold>Till:</bold> cavers@cavers.com <bold>=C4mne:</bold> Rennaker Poll </smaller></fontfamily> I have a simple question for "all" the members of this list. Would you, or would you not let someone who is obese, had a heart attack and/or stroke take a child or loved one of yours into a cave for instruction? All that is needed in your reply is a "yes" or "no". Please feel free however to make any other comments for or against that you wish too. =20 Bruic=20 </excerpt> </excerpt><<<<<<<<
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