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The acronym, PADI, translates to mean: "Put Another Dollar In". Need there be any more written on this subject? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Holcomb" <jimholcomb@sc*.co*> To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 8:06 AM Subject: Decaf-Coffee Alert was just Coffee Alert > Here is the base fo the problem. Training agencies are also quasi regulatory agencies for their members. ANY agency which is a for-profit agency has a serious conflict of interest. Non-profit agencies such as NAUI, GUE, NSS-CDS, NACD have absolutely no incentive to give a card to a bad diver. The salaries of the PADI offices depend on cards being issued. If they tightened standards less people would get certified which would mean less profit for a organization such as PADI. Plain and simple. You can wonder all you want - but this is it! Period! Take the profit motive out and standards increase. I here all the time "it is not the agency it's the instructor". Well, thats bullshit! A "good instructor" who follows PADI standards is still not teaching much. Instructors (PADI or not) who far exceed their agencies standards in their teaching aren't really "PADI" instructors are they? They are dive instructors who happens to issue a card thru PADI. > > Jim > > Dive Safe and Often > Jim > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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