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----- Original Message ----- From: Aqua Tech Dive Center <scuba@di*.co*> I do not think that one can judge a program by > it's merits or deficiencies until the program has been published. BULLSHIT.. Padi has encouraged, mandated and required of there instructors to promote con ed AT THE EXPENSE of the present eductaion. That BULLSHIT may cut it in OW but if will absolutely 100% not cut it in the tech environemnet.. Who gives a shit what there bullshit cuuriculum will show when they finally publish it... You have instokters that have been trained forever in dumbing down and giving the least possible the PADI system will tolerate.. Remember you can't deviate from the PADI system. That stupid mentality has been drilled into these instrokters mind for years, and not too long ago PADI was dead set against Nitrox. How the hell do you think it is that the mentality will change... Th merits of the program as you put it are fucking irrelevant, because you have trained idiots teaching a yet to be defined, personal preference, buy your way up the latter, hand out c-cards to the masses, diving is for everyone, DR. MJB should dive, sheild yourself from liablility, bullshit way of thinking... PADI should crawl back into there recreational, give C-cards to 10 year olds, snorlek wearing, spare air carrying, force fin buying, bondage wing promoting, mentality.. .. To this end, I don't see how PADI will pull > this one off unless they begin accepting cross certifications from other > technical agencies. Another stupid point from another idiot... PADI will certify anyone so what the hell are you worried about... From a pedestrian point of view, I think the lesser of > two evils would be to widen their insurance coverage to include a technical > dive program for instructor who currently teaches the PADI system and one of > the established tech diver training programs. The only bare point you have recognized is that PADI needs to widen there insurance coverages because once these idiots start training the masses the body count will CERTAINLY rise... Doesn't it strike you as strange that you 1st reaction as an instrokter, without the admitted benefit of seeing the course material, is to widen your insurance coverage... PADI sucks in the recreational world and they have NO fucking business getting into tech training.. PADI, just a few years ago was so afraid of Nitrox they did everything in there blind power to defeat it... They lost.. Now all of a sudden we are suppose to wait for Karl Shreeves to produce some obscure set of lawyer reviewed, dumb downed, in the unlikely event it happens, set of bullshit and think that will change 30 years of brainwashing about selling c-cards.. Get a grip.. Later -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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