Oh my. That post was just a simple question? I must have missed the question mark. It certainly look liked like an agency bashing soliloquy to me. Actually, it still does but maybe that's because I don't care if PADI is wrong, I'll always support them. Except of course when I said they steal money from members by the kickback scheme on insurance premiums or that they fail to do enough to weed out the bad instructors before there is an fatal accident.
When you said it was funny that people take sides, did you just mean that they were paying dues to one agency or was it that you found it funny that some people stopped, thought and checked their facts before they posted?
Sorry, I can barely follow you.
I posted that when it first started to come to light, I did not have all the supposed information we do now. However when I started with "How would you feel" it is kinda a question. I stated that if you teach PADI this should greatly concern you...and it still should. Regardless of how a person may feel.
Regarding your comment of "
that's because I don't care if PADI is wrong, I'll always support them. Except of course when I said they steal money from members by the kickback scheme on insurance premiums or that they fail to do enough to weed out the bad instructors before there is an fatal accident. ". Either you are being sarcastic and I'm not quite catching it or you are serious in which case...I don't agree with your ethics as stated in your post. If I support something and it later proves not worthy of that support, I feel the honourable thing to do is to withdraw that support.
Agency bashing... I think it was more "PADI's lawyer tactic bashing" than PADI bashing. Now that more details have come out, I still think their (lawyers) behavior in regards to settling and lying to stay in, and also in their "accidental" release of the incident report to the Plaintiffs AFTER they had settled and colluded to work with them is shameful. That said, I am not about to paint PADI with the brush of bad ethics because I would be surprised if more than a couple people there even knew, let alone approved the defense approach.
I also think that there were some misleading statements in Carneys letter. I am not yet certain if they were deliberate or not. They did muddy the issue somewhat as more has come out but I believe he is following his conscience. If indeed there is ever any proof that he deliberately tried to mislead, I shall think less of him.
To be honest, there are only a handfull of dive industry lawyers, and they stay busy chasing every dive accident and dipping deeply in the "quickly settle" pot, and it NEEDS to stop. Even worse is there are another handful of dive industry "experts" that are witness for hire that have zero ethics. They are also dipping deeply in the money river of lawsuits and most of them are scum bags.
When I said that some people were taking sides, I meant that THEIR team (whichever it is) became the COMPLETELY ethical and correct team, the other was unethical and liars, and vice versa. But in fact, I see issues of ethics on both sides and find myself conflicted over this case. There are some serious issues that it brings to the front that REALLY need to be discussed and addressed by the industry, DSD/resort style class just one of them.
So, it's nuanced, and many (not all by any means) are acting like it's settled (for or against PADI)