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Hi Dennis,
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> If I ever get my act together and take a tech diving course, it'll be
> from one of you guys.

.. ok, just as long as you remember that not *every body* passes.. :-)

just kidding...

aloha,

dennis
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Jokes aside I wouldn't have it any other way.  I still vividly
remember my shock when I was awarded my PADI Advanced Diver.

I didn't really want to do the class, but the guy teaching it
was a good freind, and he was also giving me diving work, so I
let him talk me into it.

I was the student from HELL!

I argued in the theory class.  I lost my temper with my dive
buddy and yelled at him (in my defence I waited till his head
was submerged first).  I refused to dive the PADI RDP, and used
the DCIEM tables instead.  I wouldn't do the safety stop at 5m,
I did deco at 6 and 3m.  I wouldn't get out of the water with
everyone else.  I wouldn't dive a single tank, anywhere, no matter
how shallow.  I wouldn't buddy breathe, I was scared of catching
something.  I abandoned my dive buddy on the deep dive, when he
wouldn't leave the instructor and I *nearly* came to blows with
the instructor during the ascent when I ignored him trying to
get me to ascend at 60 fpm rather than 30.  In fact we managed
a screaming match while U/W.  Then to top it off, I got less than
half the questions right in the exam.

After all that he asks me for two passport photos, to which I replied
  "What for?  I didn't *pass* did I."
  "There's no pass or fail.  It's called an 'experiential' course."

You could have knocked me down with the proverbial feather.

Cheers Jason :)  PADI *ADVANCED* DIVER!!!!!

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