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>W.
>
>I guess the point is that someone after technical diving training can't rely
>on an accredited instructor necessarily giving them adequate training. We
>typically look for an instructor with a good reputation who's training
>exceeds the agency requirements. (Typically the instructor says what card do
>you want, a TDI card or an IANTD card ?)
>
>Why can't the agencies raise the level of their requirements to legitimise
>the more stringent training that everyone seems to consider necessary ?
>
>Guy
>

the FIRST part of your statement is a problem with the agencies.

one SHOULD be able to assume that an agency "accredited" instructor will
deliver a course to agency standards.

so, for example, if the instructor in WPB took on a Trimix student with
only 83 dives under his belt and the IANTD standards require more dives to
enter a Trimix course, then that instructor should be suspended and
retrained and the agency should not recognise the student's
certification.(had he lived!)
and a rewsponsible agency will restate standards and take the FIRM position
that he acted WRONGLY if their instructor violates standards.

PADI, depsite all the poplular bashing, has a quality assurance program
that seems to do this sort of policing FAR better than the technical
agencies.
perhaps it's something to do with the personality of tech diver instructors
but it's STILL up to the agencies, if they are going to be responsible, to
rein them in.

the second part is another story...
IS it true that EVERYONE considers more stringenet training necessary?
i suspect there isn't that degree of unanimity.
plenty opf popele probably consider the standards tough enough.

to me it's the BIGGER issue that standards are often taken as only
guidelines by some cowboys.


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