PADI manuals are concise educational tools, which when serious about learning to dive
you view them as such read them and learn them and practice with vigour the contents
Those critical of the training process perhaps have less understanding
about how varied people are and how divers are enthusiastically developed
Squandering this resource thinking to only pass a test to get cards to get on boats
brings far less result than utilising these as a solid base for learning when on those boats
Shore diving also rocks!!!!!!!
PADI got me here and I got me back, except for the solo diving part, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
See that lighthouse place down there well that's where I used to live, but as far as diving
in ones backyard goes, it was still more than a one kilometre walk and 100 metres down
In full gear
with a PADI manual