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In a message dated 98-05-05 07:57:45 EDT, underwaterapplications@co*.co* writes: << How do we stop this nonsense of standards violations? Simple - Send evaluation forms to all students of new instructors and randomly to students of established instructors. Maybe the students won't bother sending them back, or maybe they'll lie? That's OK, the threat that an honest evaluation uncovering standards violations will get back to the training agency and result in an offending instructor being "found out" might be enough to either make the "half-assed" instructors straighten up their act, or get out of the business. "Hey man, send me some money, a release and medical form, do your classroom work by correspondence, book a Doria charter. When you get back, I'll give you your trimix ticket! No sweat man! Piece o' cake!" THIS HAS GOT TO STOP. >> Randy, I agree with you, but evaluation forms and contacting the agencies does not always work. A student of mine recently took a tri-mix class with another IANTD instructor, Andy Driver. One day on the boat, Two dives, bingo, tri-mix certified. Only one skill completed. The Instructor had three students and no vis. One student told me the other two were so bad, he did not understand how they got certified. Of course I was not on the boat to confirm any of this, but the one customer came to me in the store and told me all about it. I aksed him why he did not just take the course with me and/or JD, and he said that Andy was $300 cheaper. Go figure. I contacted IANTD three times, nothing ever happened. A few days ago a customer called me on the phone and asked me if I could do "referral dives" for basic nitrox. I aksed him who the original instructor was, he told me Andy Driver. I told the customer forget it, he needs to take the course all over again. There must be something we can do. regards, raimo -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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