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Jeff, You need only cut your dick off to go strait to the head of the class with IANTD. Rick On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, Jeff Kell wrote: > I sent a message to George Irvine about the tech training issues recently > brought up on the list. He replied: > > > Jeff, send that to the list. They need to get this > >in perspective before the body count goes any > >higher. - George > > So I'll repeat my posting... > > On the IANTD/Mount/WKPP/etc thread... > > I am VERY pleased that you are being vocal about this, god knows somebody > with some clout needs to. Your methodology obviously works, and if you > "train" members of your team without charging them $100/course for a > ten or twelve course agenda, then more power to you. > > I'm not a diving guru by any stretch of the imagination, but have tried to > carefully expand my limits on depth and getting my Nitrox training from TDI > (they seemed like the lesser of three evils at the time). > > Imagine requiring IANTD certification to order at McDonalds: > > * basic certification to order a hamburger > * advanced certification to order a cheeseburger > * deep air to order a double hamburger > * advanced deep air to order a double cheeseburger > * nitrox to order a quarter pounder > * advanced nitrox to order a quarter pounder with cheese > * gas blender to order custom condiments > * trimix to order a Big Mac (three pieces of bun, you know) > * redundant cave certification requirements to get any of the above to go > * a new course if you want a filet o'fish instead > > I suppose the cost factor weeds out a lot of divers that aren't serious > about the training, but there are also those of us out here that do indeed > want the training (and "license" or "pass" or "ticket" or whatever the > C-card represents to allow you to do it) but don't want to get screwed by > the training agency in the process. > > Good work George. > > Jeff Kell <jeff@ut*.ut*.ed*> > > PS - On the other hand, I'd hate to see a PADI "resort trimix" course > even more than the above. > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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