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The issue here is that *no* PADI/YMCA/TDI etc 
"instructor" ever gets the stick because a 
student of theirs injurs themself or someone 
else. See my piece on the Guild Mentality above.

Only when there's a comeback, a downside to 
passing someone who should not be allowed to
bathe alone, will instructors and the agencies
they represent stop taking their money and 
putting them in the water.

Paradoxically, it's all due to the insurance.
Everybody pays, so if the actual accidents are
kept few, then the insurance continues to pay 
and no instructor or agency gets slammed. But
that may not go on forever, with very large no.s
of new students. The rates have got to go up.

At the very least, this should be like other
licensed activities. The instructor gets points
based on bad things that their students do - say
for a year after certification.

It is not impossible to devise a reasonable
system that is not very onerous, but which would
increase everybody's safety and enjoyment of 
the sport.

-ph

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