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That's the problem though, isn't it? When I went in for my open water, I didn't know anything, except that I always thought that "frog men" looked cool when I was a kid, so I thought what the heck, I'll try it. I only knew one person who dove, and she learned from her dad in the tropics. I looked in the yellow pages for a scuba store. As it is, I was lucky. What really pisses me off is that these agencies have come to regulate all kinds of stuff in the diving world, not by passing laws, but by scaring stores into "standard practice" and possible insurance claims, all to make money, but the other side, regulating their instructors, has not happened. The reserve, where I dive, requires you dive with a buddy, and I'm sure this has a lot to do with PADI's influence on the dive industry. That's just one example. If they are going to curtail our freedom to dive as we want, then at least the instructors they produce should be capable of turning out half decent divers, or telling people to take the class again. Of course that might scare some people away, and then they wouldn't buy gear... Wendell Grogan wrote: ~ >I think we could all tell PADI instructor stories. Personally, I think >you really need to get to know the instructor before you trust your kids >to them. I know a PADI instructor I would trust, but it is only because >I have dived with him and his instructors. >Wendell G >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- 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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