scuba=dude
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I'll try and not make a book out of this post......
I got my c-card from the YMCA in 75.......I can tell you that Nothing is as it was then. The time I spend in boot camp to get into the navy was about the same. I had a 20year laps in my scuba diving and was unable to get a replacement card from YMCA (another life time deal that didn't last that long) so I went to a dive shop to get a new card. PADI, after 20 years of not useing my dive skills I was shure that I was doing the right thing. Wrong.....I knew more about diving then the the OW book I was useing, when I asked about Buddy breathing I was told in a rude way that Buddy breathing was out-dated!!! I was told that all divers have an OCTO (most divers I see with them are draging them in the sand) and you would use that. We did no rescue lifts,tows,or fist-aid of any kind.
I think that all of the c-card sellers are brakeing up the training to get more money rather then just teach you how to dive in a maner that is safe for the diver let alone his buddy. Back in the day we where schooled in self recue and life saving now it would seem that they'll give a card to anyone (for $300) then put them in the hands of the diving comuitiy to lean too dive, this more then any one thing this has made alot of skilled divers go solo as not to put themselfs in danger of being killed by a freaked out diver that just ran out of air.
I,m lucky to have met a guy that wished to lean scuba diving, he got all of his gear, Did the e-learning and I worked with him in my pool......send him to get his card at the same place I got my last one a few years ago......one 6hour day and 4 open water dives......Big deal, now I have to drive it home to him that he is NOT a diver yet, just a trainie and that we will make him one soon enough.
As far as the computer over the dive planer, if you trust a computer over your dive planer,good for you I hope it all works out for you in the end. Bottom line here is "Make a dive plan and then dive your plan" " A good diver is always leaning" As far as I care, anything that has a battery in it, is one day going to stop working. But you dive planer has no batterys.
Dale
I got my c-card from the YMCA in 75.......I can tell you that Nothing is as it was then. The time I spend in boot camp to get into the navy was about the same. I had a 20year laps in my scuba diving and was unable to get a replacement card from YMCA (another life time deal that didn't last that long) so I went to a dive shop to get a new card. PADI, after 20 years of not useing my dive skills I was shure that I was doing the right thing. Wrong.....I knew more about diving then the the OW book I was useing, when I asked about Buddy breathing I was told in a rude way that Buddy breathing was out-dated!!! I was told that all divers have an OCTO (most divers I see with them are draging them in the sand) and you would use that. We did no rescue lifts,tows,or fist-aid of any kind.
I think that all of the c-card sellers are brakeing up the training to get more money rather then just teach you how to dive in a maner that is safe for the diver let alone his buddy. Back in the day we where schooled in self recue and life saving now it would seem that they'll give a card to anyone (for $300) then put them in the hands of the diving comuitiy to lean too dive, this more then any one thing this has made alot of skilled divers go solo as not to put themselfs in danger of being killed by a freaked out diver that just ran out of air.
I,m lucky to have met a guy that wished to lean scuba diving, he got all of his gear, Did the e-learning and I worked with him in my pool......send him to get his card at the same place I got my last one a few years ago......one 6hour day and 4 open water dives......Big deal, now I have to drive it home to him that he is NOT a diver yet, just a trainie and that we will make him one soon enough.
As far as the computer over the dive planer, if you trust a computer over your dive planer,good for you I hope it all works out for you in the end. Bottom line here is "Make a dive plan and then dive your plan" " A good diver is always leaning" As far as I care, anything that has a battery in it, is one day going to stop working. But you dive planer has no batterys.
Dale