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Wendell, I don't care who you are or how much you think you know about diving, please knock off the snide comments about TDI. Even though most of us on this list support the DIR rules for diving, this is still the Techdiver list and not Quest. And whether you choose to believe it or not, the entire scuba world does not revolve around DIR techniques. Simply because I use and teach them (because I think they represent the wisest and safest information available) and because you use them, does not imply that they are the only possible guidelines for diving safely. There are a whole bunch of TDI instructors out there and the vast majority are competent and conscientious scuba instructors. I get real tired of many of the people on this list taking cheap shots at TDI. If you have a specific complaint about a specific item, then make it known to TDI headquarters and they'll look into it. Or let me know about it (on or off the list) and I'll be glad to pass it along. Perhaps you've heard about some TDI instructor that didn't teach some course the way you thought it should have been taught. It's certainly possible in that I don't necessarily agree with some of the things that are taught. But I can do without the constant childish snide comments about the entire organization. The TDI instructors with whom I've dealt, teach safe and competent diving techniques. GUE seems to be a solid organization that has a reasonable control over what the GUE instructor's teach. But there are how many GUE instructors to oversee, perhaps a few dozen worldwide? Try comparing that to over 7,000 TDI instructors and the control problem becomes significantly greater. Why don't you try simply pointing out the valid differences between DIR and some of the other methods being taught and leave out the derogatory comments about other dive certification agencies? You do not build yourself up by tearing others down. I have come to expect this behavior from all of the DIR zealot lemmings on this list but I would not have expected this from you. Take care and dive safe, Scott Some weeks it's just not worth the effort to gnaw through the restraints and scramble up out of the pit. In a message dated 7/23/01 6:42:33 PM, wgrogan@dc*.ne* writes: << References: One guy that has met him says he almost washed out of a TDI >course (This really sounds too impossible to believe but I pass it on anyway). How do you wash out of a TDI course? Write a bad check, insult the parentage of the instructors wife? Maybe we could come up with a dirty dozen.... Wendell >> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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