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Sports car racing requires instruction and licenses.
 
You took wake board lessons "to look cool", not because it was required to participate; same for skiing or snowboarding.
Actually we took the lessons after we saw one of the cool guys coming off the lake in a stretcher. (he was ok later)

Unfortunately it took someone getting hurt to open our eyes.
 
no one requires you to have a license to go cave diving.

If you look into this a little more you will find that if you want to do some cave dives you do indeed have to have a license.

It's a free internet (after the $39.99/month) so as long as we don't violate TOS we can all call anything whatever we want. Y'all can freely continue to call drift diving Coz with nearly dead blue haired people a sport and I am free to make fun of y'all for calling flying toy airplanes and such sports.

The subject of this thread is todays diving education and most of you obviously see no connection between the state we are in today (the fact that nearly dead blue haired people can pass an Open Water class in Coz) and the fact that so many people mistakenly call this pastime a sport.

Ain't is also in the dictionary, but it ain't because it's a proper word, it's because proper education ain't high on the human priority list.
 
Name another sport that costs hundreds to thousands of ducats to get the licenses to participate. Skydiving is the only one I know of but at least they do have competitions, even world championships IIRC.

Boating maybe. License required in most US states and boats are pricey.

Hunting can be pricey (hutning lodge, land access) and requires a license in most US states.

Hot Air Ballooning, I think.
 
Sports car racing requires instruction and licenses.

Camp Motorsport - Youth Summer Racing Camp > Home/Programs

Camp Motorsports:
Camp Motorsport is for girls & boys at ALL driving experience levels, from never-evers to those with many hours behind the wheel, including kids who are competitive drivers. No drivers license or prior experience is required. Campers are placed on age level teams so that driving activities are appropriate for each driver. Each camper drives themselves.

Not all sport car racing requires a license.
 
Boating maybe. License required in most US states and boats are pricey.

Hunting can be pricey (hutning lodge, land access) and requires a license in most US states.

Hot Air Ballooning, I think.

I owned a ski boat in Colorado and you are at the most required to license the vessel. Same here in Hawaii. Neither State has a private boat operator license.

In Colorado there is a usually free gun safety class and then $15 or so for the license. In Hawaii I'm not sure they require the class.

You would call hot air ballooning a sport, now most of my posts here might be sport.

What I asked was "what sports require hundreds of dollars expense just for the class to get the license to participate?"
 
halemano:

I appologize if indeed there is a license to go cave diving. I view a license like a drivers license. If I drive without one, I go to jail. Is this the case in reguards to cave diving? (I admit I dont know) Certification is a card that says "I can do this" and can be issued by anyone. It is upto the viewer of the card to accept the certification.

I agree with the subject of the thread, but in order for any education to be effective, a desire or reason to learn it must be there. Certification is not a good reason. People must be inticed to believe that the education will make the sport safer and more fun for them.

What I have seen in the Padi Course is that it is broken into very bite size chunks to ease the $ and time commitment. Someone called it pimping by pushing the other courses. To point that is so, but I was also told, in my course, about other directions as well.

I am a new diver and therefor talking out the side of my head, but I do know that the warm water resort course hooked me; I got my daughter to take the course, and now we are talking about heading out to Vancouver island this summer to learn some more. (no real plan yet, but at least we are talking about doing that) Will I ever break a depth record? Doubt it, but will I share a beer with my daughter after a good day of diving talking about the cool [insert cool thing here]? You bet.

Did the resort instructor instill in me the desire to learn? Nope, nada, not at all. She should not have been an instructor. Did the the father daughter team that taught the course I took with my daughter (yes I retook the course) do a good job? Absolutely. My only concern would be that they had to pass to of the people in the course because they met PADI standards. But that being said, I did not read about any deaths in Mexico last month, so they probably did their resort dives and lived, so, did the program work? They may never dive again. Then again they might decide they need to improve their skills, work at it, and dive the titanic.
 
With all due respect, "Camp Motorsports" is not Sports Car Racing.

Are those kids without drivers licenses not participating in a sport as much as the nearly dead blue haired Coz divers are participating in a sport?
 
They may be engaged in a sport, but it does not involve Sports Cars, it appears to involve dune buggies, karts, and some small formula cars. If you want to debate what is a "Sports Car," go to SportsCarForums.com, I'm really not interested.
 

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