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False Ben. Murley's next-of-kin tried this gambit when he bought it. They lost. The waiver was ruled enforceable, despite their attempt to forum shop and claim that maritime law applied (rather than the law and venue he agreed to when he signed the waiver.) You are simply not being...

Maybe its time to see if Rodale's would run a full-page rebuttal ad....

DAN did not "do the right thing." They did the thing to keep their butts from being fried by an insurance commission, and possibly losing the ability to write insurance in your state. They knew full well and good that your policy date predated the change in THEIR rules and declarations...

I sold nothing as a "loss leader." We were many times accused of doing it by others who couldn't compete with us, but we never did. Not once in the entire time I ran the place. More importantly to the point at hand, I never claimed (falsely) that I was doing so in an attempt to garner...

No you're not. Indeed, you demand that I waive all rights to come after you in this regard or you won't train me, take me on the boat, or let me in "your" cave. I've yet to walk into one shop, buy one piece of training, get on one boat, or into one "commercial" dive site which did not...

Because they'd sell none of them, and you'd own your own compressor. Think about it - at $15/pop, you could pay for the compressor in about 150 fills, and a lot of people would do exactly that. (It doesn't cost $15/fill..... as I've pointed out.) The cellphone analogy doesn't hold. To...

Two points. First, I don't believe anyone is "out to get me." Not me, personally. Perhaps a chunk of the cash in my wallet, but not me. What I object to is the apparent forcing of the system that these agencies, instructors, and others in "the biz" want down everyone else's throat -...

Flight training is entirely disjoint from dive training. Among other things your flight instructor is certified by someone who has no connection whatsoever to the business of selling his services. That is, the fox does not guard the henhouse in flight training - either for your instructor OR...

I own both the 100s and the 120s - the 120 is longer. For some people this makes the tank uncomfortable. If you're fairly tall it won't be a big deal.

And my point - and the main issue - is that by this criteria about 30% of the males over the age of 30 should not be "able to dive", because that's about the percentage of kids in many areas that are "diagnosed" with ADHD. This is one of the most-abused diagnoses in the book, to the point...

The point Mike is that there are multiple paths, and once you're past the "trust me" part the rest can easily be found by just going diving with people who you know and who do these dives as well - the instructor's primary value has been lost. If you can't execute a dive, then you shouldn't...

What doesn't make sense? If an instructor is essential - indeed, if they are, by definition, so essential that they are the difference between doing it and living, and doing it and dying - then why can't I find one who will actually take responsibility for what he/she is teaching me? Since...

If you have a "big" compressor and someone comes in with a bunch of tanks you either have the bank capacity or they wait anyway. A 5cf compressor requires ~10 minutes to fill a single AL80 from 500psi. If the guy walks in with 4 of them, and your bank is down, he's not leaving for an hour or...

You can endeavor to learn. Instructors are not the only way to learn. Indeed, the physiological information you need IS available in written form, from people who know more than any of your instructors - they didn't do an IDC, they did eight years of college and have PhD after their names...

Be aware that a LOT of "equipment coverage" does NOT cover anything that falls into the category of "mysterious disappearance". This is a major problem, as a LOT of thefts leave no obvious signs of forced entry..... There's another thread on the board right now about a gent who discovered...

The problem is that you have just set forth an impossible task. If I know what I need to ask, I don't need the training or the instructor, as what I really need is drill time (if that), not instruction. If I don't know what I need to ask, I do need the training, but now I'm not qualified to...

The equipment insurance is pretty much worthless; it doesn't cover anything other than theft, really (which you probably have covered under your renters or homeowners insurance anyway), unless you are paying for flood coverage on a camera or other similar item. Dive insurance, from someone...

There are multiple ways to learn something - buying training is not the only way, and it may not even be the most effective method. One of the reasons for this is that by definition if you are buying training you don't know enough about the subject to evaluate the prowess of your...

Agreed. The problem I have arises when people want to make decisions for others about "fitness to dive." IMHO, that is simply nobody else's business - except for the diver involved and those who are his or her consenting buddies - if any. Yes, I know the counter-arguments - they've been...

That's "DOD", not "DND" :D We used to call it "Fight-O-Net", and only half in jest. The curious thing is that the functionality it embodied was predated by a package I wrote on the TRS-80 systems - which, to my knowledge, was the first computer BBS that could send email and messages over...