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Boy are you pissin' into the wind...... :shakehead

NO actually it's yet another very poor analogy that I see quite often. You can lose your drivers licence when you've proven you're an idiot enough times. Prior to that you're also more apt to pay a higher insurance premium as well as a direct result of continual bad behavior. Not to mention...

Yep, diving 12 years, that's a while........has 150 dives in total (12.5 a year), and none in the last 10months...... DAN states you're most apt to have an accident on the first dive of the first day of the annual vacation.....which all means most of these mishaps are coming from unskilled and...

Oh i believe many love what they're doing, I just think they don't KNOW what they're doing. ;) Whether they ever become an asset or not is unknown, but generally most are nothing but a huge liability to someone.

Actually Mark, all I really see are more divers that can't dive trashing the vis, reefs, wrecks and caves....... I don't think that there's anything positive about it at all. I'd be happier with fewer divers myself, if they continue to be processed like they are currently.

On the way, give him time. He's Eastern Standard Time Zone challenged. :rofl3:

LOL :rofl3: I KNEW they would still be sending it to you.....roflmao Irony is such a beautiful thing. :D

The good news is a lot of people DO get it and in part it is because what you're doing isn't always in vain and doesn't always fall on deaf ears. And a 'thank you' for that, from me ;) BTW, do they still send you letters telling you it's annual fee time after all these years?

I see your math, and I know it's just academic for you. 1/3rd's is way too balsy for me anyway you wanna slice it.

Not sure exactly what you're saying since thirds as above is calculated and will work irrelevant of SAC rate. If I see what you've done correctly, Diver A first turn pressure is 2300psi, in the second example it is 2400psi which is more or less a result of where in the calcs, you're rounding...

lol :rofl3:

This one gets my vote for the best of the best of stories..... ROFLMAO :rofl3:

OK, thanks bud. As yoyu may or may not know there's a local tech instructor setting up trips to Bikini in '07. It was kinda pie-in-the-sky dreaming anyway as the cost is out of my league, but I've always had a hankering to do Bikini. The shows etc I have seen of it have been amazing. Yes I...

Did you forget about the part where we then pour gas on them and light them on fire ;) Must be an Ontario thing....

This is correct. Let's face it, they're gonna touch it anyway :)

I have been told countless time by CD's up the hoop that this is what their aim is. They were quite specific on the matter actually. It was taught to me via my IDC. Others have mentioned this same thing was taught to them by other CD's so we are all left to believe that this is how it is...

When you've seen enough accidents that should never be happening on course, you'll see it differently. When you see why the accidents are being caused by you'll see it differently. When you realize that the agency knows full well what's going on and refuse to correct the actions, re-write...

In all seriousness I can't for the life of me figure out how some class-action lawsuit hasn't yet been launched over all of this. I can't imagine there hasn't yet been a rich guy who's family member bought it on a BS course and they decided to go after them.

Who writes the low-level standards that the Padi Instructor must adhere to?......and who states that nothing should be added or taken out of the program lest your course be different the guy's half way around the globe? Yes Padi. What's more, the prospective Instructor has spent his entire life...

..........On your 9th lifetime dive to boot. Left to their own most people would see that as a dangerous activity, better left until one is more skilled by diving under less extreme conditions. Whereas the agency tells them this is quite acceptable procedure and does more than that by actively...