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At 10:14 PM 6/23/96 -0000, Jim Cobb wrote:
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 When you dive you trust your 
>life to your own common sense and abilities. This is one area where 
>initial scuba training falls short. Instruction is not designed to scare 
>away or even intimidate the faint of heart. Not enough information is 
>provided to the budding diver as to the manifold hazards assotiated with 
>diving.
><Entering de-lurk mode>

This is the crux of many of the problems we experience here in our
little piece of Texas heaven -- the shop owners are so eager to create more 
divers (big money, gear-buying, Carribean trip-going divers) that the 
inherent risks involved in diving are not only downplayed, they are ignored. 
 Never mention to the students that they are putting themselves at risk, 
because then they may decide this ain't for them, and we lose money. Hell, I 
have overheard instructors tell prospects that they don't need to know how 
to swim!  We lose too many divers a year at Travis because training has 
become a conveyor belt.  I have never heard of an instructor failing to 
grant someone a C-card, though I have seen many prospective divers that 
should never be in the water.  
My tuppence

Rocket

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