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Per, No, the PADI acronym is just fine the way it is spelled. You must not know what it stands for: Put Another Dollar In Although I'm not sure what they call the currancy in Norway. Lee --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: Per Helland <per.helland@os*.it*.te*.no*> To: "(Roberto Bagnasco)" <divetek@we*.ch*>, techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: PADI standards ..... Date: 09 Dec 1997 08:50:37 Z Message-ID: <"2165 97/12/09 "PADI standards does not promote deep air diving..." > I heard that many times, PADI and most of the recreational agency do not > inform divers of what they are actually doing, PADI says something like "We > do no decompression dives, etc" and do not give the students any > information of what they should do, if they want to go deeper, or stay > there longer. > I believe that this is the only way you can keep a OW course simple and > easy, and cheap enough, so that they can certify Joe Diver in a few days. > Hiding the information is a criminal act, and if you make money teaching > PADI OW courses, you are responsible for it. 100% right on the money! Bullseye! We had an discusion earlyer on a newsgroup here in Norway about PAID (as I call them) and IANTD (TDI and other org. alike are not in Norway). I said just the same. > PS: You know what to do with your PADI standards, do yoy? PADI = PAID Per Helland Stavanger, norway -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. --------- End forwarded message ---------- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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