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At 7:56 AM 8/31/95, Ken Sallot wrote: > > I'm not saying training doesn't have it's place. I'm just saying there > are too many "patch people" out there running out and trying to get > that nice new shiny patch to show how good of a diver they are. > Sallot's law of patches - A person's diving ability is inversely > proportional to how many patches/stickers they have on their > person/car. There are too many people out there getting c-card's that > (a) shouldn't be, (b) once they get that c-card feel that they have > fully mastered the subject material. What would be nice is if > instructors emphasized that having a c-card is like having a learners > permit, and that you never stop learning, and that it does not mean > you've mastered the subject, just met a set of MINIMUM requirements. ignoring all the stuff we so nauseatingly AGREE about <g>... i don't have a problme with people collecting patches (if that measn collecting courses) more training is ALWAYS better than less (and before someone starts to rail about how the training can be not so great and full of "wrong" information about which hose to breathe from, etc....there is always SOMETHING to be learned, even if it's what NOT to do) i have as much problem or more with divers who have convinced themselves that they know everything and knew it before the rest of us were walking and why change ANYTHING now just because a few hundred years of developement have gone by? perhaps this is more of an open water phenom...but i still see the ONLY USN tables are "good", ONLY a horse collar BC is worthwhile, ONLY this one type of regulator is acceptable (and it's usually a brass second stage, discontinued model) etc. types more than i see the "patch collectors" these are the guys who are also going to say "i've been mixing my own gas for years, i'm not paying someone to blend it now..." "i've been diving at higher PO2's than 1.6 for years, i must be immune to O2 hits..what's all the FUSS about?"... someone who is training is at least accepting that he NEEDS to learn...that he CAN learn (unlike an ant, i wasn't born knowing EVERYTHING i need to know) those of us HERE are likely to be reading all we can and learning all we can anyway..we're the ones interested enough to spend time and money reading stupid lists such as these to get every SCRAP of dive related information we can ..because we KNOW that we will sooner or later and more often than not learn something new i'd rather encourage THAT attitude than the 'you're bound to learn by doing EVENTUALLY..." approach cheers, ww
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