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Cliff Sumbler wrote: > > Should this prove to be true it is only the latest in a growing list in > Ontaio's waters of novice divers dieing in Advanced Open Water training > with only the barest minimum of experience. IMO that diver and others of > similar experience level have no business in such a class, and the > Certification Agencies that allow students to go directly from Open Water > to Advanced should be held criminaly accountable. > You may not realize what the "Advanced" class is for many agencies. NAUI used to call it Openwater/2 before they gave in and followed PADIs naming convention. Neither "Advanced" class deserves that name except that it is the "next" class after "basic". The typical recreational advanced class is simply a series of 5 dives with slight task loading (e.g. night dive, tying knots under water, simple search and recovery, working with guide lines under water, triangular compass course - all that in depths not to exceed 80 ft. A diver who is not "ready" to attend such an "advanced" class should not have been CERTIFIED. If someone cannot descend to 40 ft and stay there and wait for a dive leader to return, then he should not have been handed the Certification Card - THAT's where the problem starts. -- Andy Schmidt [NJ] EMail: 73467.2574@Co*.CO* * AOL: ASchmidt1 * MSN: Andy_Schmidt http://OurWorld.CompuServe.Com/HomePages/Andy_Schmidt Direct flames, personal attacks and such to "AndyInsult@ao*.co*"
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