PADI's phone number in the US is 1-800-PAY-PADI - no shit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Graham [mailto:magraham@ne*.co*]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:38 AM
To: jimholcomb@sc*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: Decaf-Coffee Alert was just Coffee Alert


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
>
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