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>   Raimo, tell us who this weenie is, so we can properly 
>roast hem. The style looks like your boy, Stuart, but I
>hope not - I don't like a battle of wits with an unarmed
>opponent. - G

Better idea.  Raimo, tell us who this guy is, and tell us why you didn't
want to sign his C-card.

I am just a lowly NAUI Advanced sport diver, who has been away from things
for some time, and who has been following the techdiver list more out of
curiosity than anything else.

The rule I learned, twenty years ago, was that the instructor was under no
obligation whatsoever to sign a C-card, if for WHATEVER reason he didn't
think that certifying the candidate was the right thing to do.  My Advanced
instructor had exactly one criterion for certifying someone, namely,
whether his girlfriend would be safe diving with him, doing the things he
had just been taught.  He signed my card.  Knowing his girlfriend, and
knowing how much he cared about it, I considered it a compliment and a heck
of a vote of confidence.  (And there was never any doubt whatsoever in my
mind that he wouldn't have signed the card if he hadn't thought Kathy would
be safe diving with me.)
If Raimo didn't want to sign the card, he had a reason, and I see it as his
call and no one else's.

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