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To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Cc: divetek@we*.ch*
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:53:43 -0500
Subject: re: PADI standards .....
From: nssdiver@ju*.co* (Lee C Kresge)
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  



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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

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