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My old instructor called it;
"Paid Assholes Diving Incompetently"
haha
Michael A. Graham" wrote:
> 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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