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At 3:40 AM 4/16/95, Chris Hellas wrote:

>The figures you quote are acedemic. All that money does not make you skilled.
>What is considered proof of experience? Logged dives? Verified by who?

Of course they're academic, the figures describe academic requirements.  What's
your point?  I don't know how much effort is put into checking up on
falsified logs (ok, I do; not much), but again, what't the point?  That
people can lie about their experience?  Sure they can, but it's a self
limitting behaviour, you know, Darwinism in action ;).

>I was merely passing comment over a specific incident back home. What of
>the 'self taught' Trimix divers I bumped into recently.   I agree
>wholeheartidley
>with your sentiments, but  I think the PADI open water scenarion is slightly
>different. Here we have divers who can already dive - a little knowledge can
>be dangerous.

That was also the point of my observation that you may want to tighten
up your training requirements.

>As far as the UK goes, we @ IANTD over here apply the international std's.

Then you have an enforcement problem, not a training problem.

Scott.

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