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With most of my diving being in the gulf, holding a 10' stop is almost impossible to do accurately due to surge. It is MUCH easier to hold a 20' stop in open water.

Truth's a problem eh?

Oxycheq doesn't price-fix to the best of my knowledge. You are grasping at straws to justify calling names.

OMG, Mike and I agree :D

I disagree. PADI's stated mission is to live up to their slogan - "The way the world learns to dive." To live up to that slogan, it logically follows that displacing instructors from other agencies in shear volume is an essential part of the mission.

Proper attributions take time; I've got the cites but need to crossreference them, as some of the source material has moved or suspiciously been "removed" in a couple of cases where online publication was the case. No assumption necessary. Take any arbitrary school district and you will...

I have some interesting words to describe what I think of the folks from there that I talked to... but they're not for polite company. Get a beer in me if you ever come down here to dive (that boat trip's still on me if 'ya show up here sometime) though, and I bet you get to hear all of them...

Without instructors, PADI can't sell any cards to divers. The conflict of interest is pretty clear. Most of PADI's money doesn't come from the instructor's dues - it comes from the diver materials and card processing fees they sell.

One - Abyss. And I have patronized them (directly, since there are no local dealers near me.) No, I am saying that if I could find a dealer who refused to promulgate price-fixing, I would shop in his store to the extent that what he offered comported with what I needed to buy, and would...

That's an outside upper bound, but it was precisely those kinds of outrageous numbers that led to laws in several states prohibiting school personnel from recommending (or more) that kids be placed on psychotropic medication. With the "zero tolerance" environment we have had over the last 10...

I don't believe you need proof you can teach anything you'd like. I also don't believe that I should need proof that I can conduct any dive I'd like. However, if you are going to demand that I prove that I can conduct some dive, then you must accept that it is only reasonable that if...

What it says will be upheld in court, as you are in Florida. What it says IS what matters. All the nattering you do verbally means nothing when there is a lawsuit. What matters is what's reduced to writing and signed. More importantly and to the point, when you present me with said...

Unfortunately, that simply is not true. There are no instructors in this industry that are certified competent by a non-partisan oversight board. You have to be pass a board certification to be an electrician, a beautician (!), a nurse, doctor, lawyer, structural engineer and a whole host...

So? I used to talk to lawyers all the time. Doesn't bother me. Its still a free country - they can talk all they wany. Really Ben? Tell me, what does your waiver say? Post the precise language, if you please. Let's see exactly what it claims to release you from, and whether what it says...

Don't mistake selective enforcement for a written policy. In many ways selective enforcement is actually worse, although it does open up a convenient means for someone who is on the "wrong" side of it to get some flesh back if they hire a landshark.

Given that I have dealer agreements and pricing policies from most of the major suppliers in the market, and they look to all have been written by the same lawyer, I'd say that its a good assumption, since if you sell any of those brand names, that's what you got shoved down your throat...

You can do it, but its illegal if you go beyond open water. Indeed, there is another spring near Ginnie that is on public land - its illegal to dive there. That "poofed" Ginnie's competition - hard to compete with free, 'ya see. Well, you did it a while ago Mike. Try that now and you'll get...

If you can find one of these LDS operators who has refused to accept such price-fixing policies, and/or carries no gear that contains such a restraint and independantly prices his product, then I will be happy to recognize that operator. However, I will ask for evidence, particularly if they're...

I think the CCR is likely to become the norm for anyone diving where 'mix is indicated - simply due to gas cost issues. Helium is going to get VERY expensive in the next 10 to 20 years. VERY expensive. Like several times what it costs now. The escalation has already begun, and it will only...

Crammer and Decker were one of the "distributors" I spoke with last year; they are part of the problem. The restriction is not only on ADVERTISED prices.