Oh, "cult" is an easy shorthand for "don't even thinking about diving any other way than the way we taught you".
I agree with you, Dale, wholeheartedly -- Joe Talavera taught me, "Do all the diving your current training fits you to do, and when you want to do something more, go take more training." And I think he was a very wise man.
And I'll plead guilty to having implied that someone who has taken recreational training through Rescue hasn't been taught proper diving skills. Unfortunately, that is what I see day after day in Puget Sound. Shoot, I see INSTRUCTORS who dive at a 45 degree angle and leave broad silt trails behind them. If I saw more well-trained students, I'd probably sing a different tune.
It sounds as though the original poster has decided he doesn't need to take a class to learn any of the things that I've described the class as teaching, so the whole discussion is moot, anyway.
I agree with you, Dale, wholeheartedly -- Joe Talavera taught me, "Do all the diving your current training fits you to do, and when you want to do something more, go take more training." And I think he was a very wise man.
And I'll plead guilty to having implied that someone who has taken recreational training through Rescue hasn't been taught proper diving skills. Unfortunately, that is what I see day after day in Puget Sound. Shoot, I see INSTRUCTORS who dive at a 45 degree angle and leave broad silt trails behind them. If I saw more well-trained students, I'd probably sing a different tune.
It sounds as though the original poster has decided he doesn't need to take a class to learn any of the things that I've described the class as teaching, so the whole discussion is moot, anyway.