>In a message dated 98-03-04 00:32:59 EST, dlv@ga*.ne* writes:
>
><< The boats really believe tech diving is
> dangerous.  And people ask me, "why should we have stricter
standards"????.
>  >>
>
>Dan,
>
>Is it stricter standards that we really need, or perhaps a better way of
>enforcing the ones already in place?? If we had stricter standards, who
would
>enforce those?? I think we need stricter standards on who makes it to
>Instructor status, and then some way of ensuring that they do their job.
>
>Safe diving, Bob

Bob,
I think if "some" agency(s) had really good control of their instructor
selection process, as well as periodic reviews to make sure the instructors
are staying in  the prescribed guidelines, then this whole issue would go
away---instructors would not give cards to the "wrong"  tech divers.  But
now you would get back to the elite agency issue, meaning that for this type
of instructor perfection, the agency would have to be much smaller than the
IANTD or TDI models, or an agency like IANTD would have to create a new
spin-off, which would be their elite branch---with all the attendant
screening procedures in place.  If IANTD does this, or if JJ does this, then
they could start with a review of the "best of the best" instructors, and
make being hired by them a coveted event.
These instructors would have to charge more money per unit of time, but the
instruction would be better.  Also, they would not waste the student's time
with add on courses that should have been consolidated into other courses
all along----like the blatant stupidity of teaching a nitrox course which
only qualifies the student to use Nitrox I or II,  and then another course
is required to use richer mixes, and still another for pure oxygen deco's,
and in-water recompression skills.  There are plenty of other areas where
consolidation would allow the instructor to make more money per unit of
time, but to allow the student to learn more per class per dollar---allot
more.!!!!
Overall fees to become trimix certified need to drop to well below  the
current $2500 figure I have heard quoted---I can't believe this is anything
but "additive selling", and the additions ( like the nitrox  type of
example) are ridiculous..
Regards,
Dan

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