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I really feel for this guy: LOVE YOUR JOB This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work...think of this guy. Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is...

Actually I haven't had any surgery yet. I am just tossing the idea around in my head. Thank you for your response I appreciate it.

Does any of the docs on the board know if having Gastric Bypass Surgery prevent someone from diving after recovering from the surgery?

More like a controlled, uncontrolled ascent. His instructor held onto him to keep him from shooting to the top.

On the contrary, in talking with the lady from PADI it is a standard to cover altitude diving when the class is being taught at altitude or will be doing OW certs at altitude. In fact the lady I spoke with had been to the dive site which we did our OW certification and said she knew about the...

Just an update to this thread. A woman from PADI contacted me last Thursday about the letter I sent into PADI a couple of weeks ago. The lady was very nice and asked me several questions about what I wrote in my letter. She was concerned about the amount of time that was spent in each...

Thanks Stephen. I really appreciate the information about altitude diving. None of what you posted was done during our dives, pre or post. It is obvious from your post I have got an awful lot to learn. My beef is that I should have gotten more than what we did in our OW class. In my...

We went to that altitude, we actually live at approximately 4500 ft. Only actual. The only thing he said about diving at altitude was that there were special conditions about that if you dove above 1000 ft. And you had to have a different class for that. Actual depth on all dives were...

Exactly what I am trying to do by going to a different LDS. I seriously love this sport but it has become painfully aware that I need TONS more experience and instruction. This thread was started because I felt like I had been let down by the dive shop I took my training through. It was...

The altitude issue happened after one of our dives at 6000 ft and a trip home that took us over an 8000 ft pass, they told us to just fill out our logs like they taught us, nothing about altitude because that was another class. As for exposure protection we didn't even get into a wet suit until...

Nope. That was another thread and another topic. Almost forgotten about that one. The reason I took my son to a different dive shop was that I refuse to do business with the LDS where I took my class from. This thread was a result of me sitting in the class and seeing the differences in the...

If someone doesn't ***** about it what will ever be done about it. You see that is how progress is made, not by ignoring the problem and hoping that things change on their own. As a matter of fact I am already signed up for the next class. This time with a much better picture of how things...

Not sure I agree there. Yes the majority of the problem is with the shop but if this happened to me I am sure it has happened to others, how many of them have written to PADI? Did PADI listen? Don't know. Never said PADI or the instructors "Sucked". If you go back and read my original...

Ya know what, I don't think we had much instruction at all in class until it came time to do the tables, and then that was all of 30 min. Most of the time we were asked if we had watched the video and did we have any questions, we would then review the answers to the questions in the book...

I wish I was making it up. We were filling out our logs after one of the dives and were talking about the altitude adjustments and were told to "not worry about that" and "if we were to talk about that we would have to charge you for another class." That was the beginning of the end of our...

We did talk to them about several of the classes and literally nothing changed. As far as taking our business elsewhere, we told them that too, not just because of the class issue. We never received anything from PADI other than our C-card. I know we didn't get the time we needed in the...

I agree, but from what I have heard the bare minimum is not enough when other agencies are offering so much more for the open water certification. My brother was certified with NAUI when he was living back east and he couldn't believe it when I told him of my experiences.:upset:

My son is going with SSI. Only because SSI and PADI are the only ones offered by the dive shops around here.

OK, here is the scenario. I took my open water certification a couple of months ago through PADI, sponsored of course by a local dive shop. My dive buddy and I thought w had a pretty good class..........that is until we started diving with several people with similar amounts of dives but...

I use just the lenses from an old pair of glasses, Ray Ban style frame. They fit perfectly into my ScubaPro panoramic mask. I use defog on the lenses before I put them in the mask and you can't even see that I have them in the mask. I have dropped my mask in 25 feet of water, had my buddy...