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<stuart.morrison@sw*.co*.uk*> wrote: ~ >Don, > >you are right to worry. You've got people that admit they are not >technical divers and don't even have the basic knowledge and yet in a >very short time they are not only going to be doing this kind of diving >but teaching it? > >In the Undersea Journal (the magazine PADI doesn't let the customer see) >they have discussed how they don't like doing fitness checks for >non-professional certs as it is discouraging to the customers. An >instructor with a cave cert and 20 cave dives can become a cavern >instructor and teach the right way to dive in a cave on a single bottle. >Nitrox, they said, was too complicated to teach until it became >profitable. They will either turn out divers woefully inadequate, >woefully incompetent, woefully ignorant or answer D, all of the above. > >Be afraid. No, no, they are going to make money, money, and more money. That's all that matters, right? -- Paul B. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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