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At 03:48 PM 4/26/00 -0700, you wrote: >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.. From my observations PADI seems to train their Instructors to pass the IE rather than to become a good/competent Instructor, e.g. minimum scores still get the c-card. >... 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... Down here PADI will not issue a Nitrox Instructor rating unless the applicant is already an Instructor from a recognised Technical agency (PADI is the only non-technical agency here) or if the candidate attends one of the special Nitrox Instructor workshop with a qualified course director, CD with 10 Nitrox dives. We even had a PADI IDC graduate approach us before they attended their IE to arrange for some technical Instructor courses (Nitrox, Advanced Nitrox and Deco Procedures). These were to be done the week following their IE. The 'instructor' was qualified up to Deco Procedures and had a total of 14 technical dives (including all course dives). This person was to become the technical Instructor for their shop. Before you ask, we said piss off. >PADI sucks in the recreational world and they have NO fucking business >getting into tech training.. At present we provide the technical instructors for a local PADI facility, we have been told that this will change when PADI Tech becomes available. On one hand it will be funny to sit back and watch a twenty technical dive 'veteran' teach Trimix and have all/some survive, but on the other hand the first death or serious DCI incident will probably kill any and all 'commercial' technical diving here. Hell, after one rebreather death a while ago the proposed government regulations will just about nullify any 'commercial' rebreather use/instruction here. >PADI, just a few years ago was so afraid of Nitrox they did everything in >there blind power to defeat it... They lost.. I suppose 'Drew' gets paid whether the PADI membership trusts and respects his opinion or not. A good Instructor will always ensure that they don't get in above their depths. PADI has such people, and they will not be the ones we will read about. It will be the average, minimum pass, mass produced bozo, that does his technical workshop and 10 dives that will make the news. Paul -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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