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Gibbo,
G'Day, Mate! Great Post.
>Teaching people to dive and earning money from it causes all sorts of
>problems about who maintains quality control. I know PADI is supposed to
>have this wonderful all encompassing quality assurance program, but as we
>all have seen it DOES NOT WORK. Too many people slip through the net.
>
>Lets look at other area where you pay to get instruction.
> Driving a car-------- someone else examines you
>You pay for the instructions but someone else decides if you pass or not.
>This allows people to go to the best instructors for driving lessons
>because they have the best pass rate. I'm sure that there are many other
>good examples but I can not think of any currently
>
>The training agencies are going to have to get their shit together soon
>or they will become regulated. (I think this just happened in Canada).
And Australia. Big time! Governments, State and Federal, see diving as a
way to advance the bureaucratic structure. The problem being that safety
becomes a secondary issue to pragmatic considerations.
>The BSAC system used to one of the best in the world in training divers
>because of the club system, until money started getting in the way.
See above.
>Now BSAC schools can suffer the same problems that PADI schools do
Times change!
>George has developed his own club (WKPP) and so is able to maintain his own
>standards in respect to cave diving. You dive the way his team dives, or
>you dont dive with them. If you join WKPP he takes a look at your gear
>training and any other baggage that you carry with you scraps the crap
>and works on improving the rest.
Good on him! George is a phrophet of things to come.
>The theory behind diving clubs is that it is not just the money the
>instructor is after. They are promoting the sport that they love by
>investing time to teach others.
Most of them do. {Hell! I don't know of too many Instructors that boast
that they're in it for the loot!]
>That person is then going to be diving
>with them in the futur and if they have been trained badly or unsafe then
>you are putting at risk one of your friends.
>What we have to promote is that the cheapest dive school is probably the
>cheapest dive school for a reason. They cut corners and churn out as many
>students in order to sell equipment and more courses. It all down to
>money and marketing.
>
>What we need is a new Organisation that would not be stuck in the past
>concerning training and what should and should not be taught. It should
>not be so concerned with making money>
Let's scrap this notion that there's something wrong with making money!
> but simply promoting the sport,
For free?????
>it should not alow for multilevel marketing as in some of the others. It
>should allow for STRICT adherance to training quidlines with
>recertification of instructors on a yearly basis.
You have my whole hearted blessing on that one!
>Any infringment of
>training standards should be grounds for decertification. And it should
>be based upon a club system with more than one signature required for
>certification of divers. The person who trains does not certify, that is
>down to someone else.
I agree! Good thought!
>Diving is such big businness>
You're joking!!! Virtually everyone that I know in diving has turned their
backs on the the world of Mammon and does it for the life-style and the few
odd coins.
>
that this will probably never happen. But at
>least we have a few voices crying out for change and identifying the
>strokes of this world for what they are. My favorite FAR SIDE cartoon was
>a field of sheep with their heads down eating grass, with one sheep
>standing up in the middle shouting.....but we dont have to be sheep....
>So take that to heart in the diving world. We dont have to be sheep.
>Individuals can make a difference even if it takes time for the message
>to get through.
To get back to the original thought.
What's wrong with teaching people to dive for profit??????????
And does PADI - or any of the other 'training' agencies - really understand
what DIVERS expect out of diving???
Keep up the Crusade.
Strike
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