Advanced Open Water Disappointment

[Celt]

I’m not sure where noobs would go for SCUBA advice. I go here, and there are many many posts expressing bad feelings about this or that, but they don’t name names. There will be many reasons for that I suppose, but it illustrates my concern. I fell like if you won’t name an offender, maybe you shouldn’t say anything in the first place. I know some will have legitimate reasons for silence, but are they really good enough reasons?

Whistleblowers are not treated well,

 

[steinbil]

Your instructor trained you according to PADI standards and you feel that you and him did well, so, I suppose the problem is not the agency or training standards?

My instructor trained me well in spite of standards, not because of them. I think there are problems with both the standards, in that they don't guarantee good training, but also in the enforcement/quality control. I also had a private OW class with one instructor, one assistant and me in the water. So a 1:2 ratio, not the usual 6:1.

 

[scubaozy]

My instructor trained me well in spite of standards, not because of them. I think there are problems with both the standards, in that they don't guarantee good training, but also in the enforcement/quality control. I also had a private OW class with one instructor, one assistant and me in the water. So a 1:2 ratio, not the usual 6:1.

Which standard hindered them?

 

[tursiops]

Whistleblowers are not treated well,

...by those on whom the whistle was blown...which they deserved. What is the problem with this? The alternative is an increasingly worsening status quo.

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

And, lion fish in the Caribbean should be hunted to local extinction if possible!

You must have a permit to hunt / shoot lionfish in a SPA in the Florida Keys.

 

[L13]

You must have a permit to hunt / shoot lionfish in a SPA in the Florida Keys.

Then hopefully they are easy to get!

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

Then hopefully they are easy to get!

Takes some classroom time...its a stupid rule by your gubment at work, IMO.

 

[L13]

Takes some classroom time...its a stupid rule by your gubment at work, IMO.

Are they lionfish specific? Or are there other game fish you can legally hunt on the same permit?

I don't hunt, but I appreciate loinfish hunters.

 

[Celt]

...by those on whom the whistle was blown...which they deserved. What is the problem with this? The alternative is an increasingly worsening status quo.

Someone working in a shop whistleblowing on their employer could mean they don’t work in a store again. They need protection.

 

[The Chairman]

Are they lionfish specific? Or are there other game fish you can legally hunt on the same permit?

I don't hunt, but I appreciate lionfish hunters.

ONLY lionfish may hunted in a SPA (Special Protected Area). The class is designed to make the diver aware to not shoot in such a way as to injure the reef. I saw a guy (not on a spa) hit a sponge and really rip it up.