Agency Culture (Truth in Humor?)

[rhwestfall]

I was joking that the only thing NAUI is known for doing in the industry is ditch & dons. Being facetious that a pool skill is their claim to fame, unlike PADI and GUE, where both agencies have been involved in legit science and changing the way we dive.

Doppler studies/RBGM?

 

[Trace Malinowski]

With all of the committees, you'd think NAUI would be the go to agency for dive safety and info behind DAN.

 

[agilis]

I was joking that the only thing NAUI is known for doing in the industry is ditch & dons. Being facetious that a pool skill is their claim to fame, unlike PADI and GUE, where both agencies have been involved in legit science and changing the way we dive.

If your water skills and equipment familiarity are so low that you can't do doff and don in a pool you have no business doing any serious diving in a more challenging setting. Doff and don has nothing to do with any specious claims to 'science'. It's fundamental, a starting point, like the ability to set up your own gear correctly.

 

[TrimixToo]

Where's the damn "Love" button?

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

If your water skills and equipment familiarity are so low that you can't do doff and don in a pool you have no business doing any serious diving in a more challenging setting. Doff and don has nothing to do with any specious claims to 'science'. It's fundamental, a starting point, like the ability to set up your own gear correctly.

The reason they don’t do it anymore is because somewhere along the line the memo got lost that you’re supposed to breath out when going up with a lungfull of air and no reg in your mouth. Something about getting your pants sued off? I think??

 

[txgoose]

Regardless of "religion" I love it when religion and humor cross paths. This was a great post. The thread will be fun to watch.

 

[Trace Malinowski]

If your water skills and equipment familiarity are so low that you can't do doff and don in a pool you have no business doing any serious diving in a more challenging setting. Doff and don has nothing to do with any specious claims to 'science'. It's fundamental, a starting point, like the ability to set up your own gear correctly.

I think you are taking this too seriously.

 

[Scott]

Oh man that hurt, deeply.





I'm still laughing. Great post @Trace Malinowski

 

[Miyaru]

Regardless of "religion" I love it when religion and humor cross paths. This was a great post. The thread will be fun to watch.

Making jokes about agencies is one thing. Making jokes about religion is simply dangerous!


The diver and his faith are one and the same. The Deep exists. Every diver projects the shape of his own, unique world view on the void. He endows his creation with his personal wills and views. The believing diver who explains his case is essentially explaining himself. When a fanatic is contradicted, he feels a threat to his existence; he reacts violently.
These fanatic divers were not born this way, but have been indoctrinated into Doing It Right. Everyone else is doing it wrong, those are Divers Ignoring Reality!
To wipe out the grey areas in this black-and-white vision, the religious leaders put you through Fundamentalist training, where any individual thinking is erased, for the sake of the greater good, or in layman's terms, the team. These training classes are now also organized outside of Afghanistan and Pakistan and no matter how good you think you can dive, you will first become a Fundamentalist and YOU MUST FOCUS on their beliefs! The religious leaders are not interested in you passing the Fundamentalist course, as their status increases with their student-failure rate. So expect to do it again, for these leaders are Gods under evaluation.

 

[agilis]

I think you are taking this too seriously.

Why the video? I thought we were talking about basic scuba certification for non-divers. What's with all the irrelevant self-portraiture? I can do a few difficult things myself, after a half century of diving. I'd be more impressed by a video of a student handling themselves well. Maybe a better soundtrack too, something less frenetic.
I'm not taking any of this seriously, despite my seriously impaired sense of humor. I think all of the agencies are unavoidably self-serving entities that become laughable when they try to sound responsible beyond the minimum required to survive and turn a profit.