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Dive agencies already offer and promote refresher courses. They also promote continuing education, but in sites like ScubaBoard, continuing education is mocked as an "agency money grab."

Can you be specific? What is the legal limit there?

My understanding is that if you are acting as a professional, you are liable for your actions as if you are an active professional, whether you are or not. The key is whether people are counting on you to act in a supervisory role.

PADI uses different language, but as I understand it from my PADI instructional experience, they key issue is the last bullet point--carrying professional liability insurance. If Roussel was not an active DM, then it is likely that he did not carry professional liability insurance. If he did not...

I want to illustrate my fear about the potential here by telling the story of a hypothetical diver, Tom. Tom was certified as an OW diver, with the training dives limited by standards to 60 feet/18 meters. The course materials made it plain that he should use that depth a guideline for maximum...

This was a HUGE problem about 15 years ago, especially with drysuits made by Whites. If you do a search, you will find multiple threads on the issue. You will also find a thread in which I reported on an experiment I did. I had a neck seal start to go very early in its life. I cut it into...

You still appear not to understand. You seem to be using the word "limit" as if it were some kind of legal standard rather than a guideline. Whatever those "limits" are, agency to agency, they are only truly limits when they apply to dives being done during certification classes. They do not...

In post #2, Cthippo nicely explained the training limit controversy. The simple fact is that many people have a mistaken understanding of those limits. From what I am reading and from taking the survey, I believe you may be one of them. This is concerning because you seem to be in some way...

How very wise.

I missed where they were split. What would be the point of that, since a DM cannot perform the duties of an instructor on a certification dive?

According to the History of NAUI, back in the early days of scuba in America, there were dive clubs. I was not involved in scuba back then, so I have no experience with that era. However, that history says that the failure of that club system was the primary reason for the demise of the YMCA as...

IMHO, the computer of most interest is the DMs. The DM is tasked with watching over the rest of the students while the instructor works with individual students. If the victim's computer showed that she dropped down early in the instruction, it is very possible for the instructor to be unaware...

The greatest penalty that a die agency can impose is expulsion from the agency. I am not sure what the rules are for their release of internal investigations to others--ask @Subfiend. IIRC, there was a bit of an issue with PADI supposedly accidently releasing some of its internal investigation...

It does not say it can't be recovered. It does not say there is a glitch. It just says "no data is to be recovered." The potential reason for that is a decision not to recover it.

You don't have to fine tune your weighting to the degree many would suggest, and you really don't want to. If you do the suggested weight check at the beginning of the dive, add some weight to account for lost air during the dive and just to be safe--a few pounds over ideal weight is more than...

You should float at eye level while holding a normal breath. If you exhale, you should sink.

Unlimited shore diving from the Villa Aldora will likely turn out to be one dive, and a short one at that. It's not the best dive site in the world. I did a few instructional dives there years ago, and that was more than enough for me. I was just diving with them two weeks ago, and unlimited...

There are several definitions of the word "professional," depending upon the context of its use. One of them is... Someone who is paid to do an activity that others might do as a hobby. Every few years I have my house painted by professionals rather than do it myself. I also let professional...

The benefit of increasing the ratio is that someone would SEE an issue and be able to act before it became a problem.