I work with/for a dive shop here in the midwest and have similar complaints of my own regarding the training and certification of certain people as divecons, etc. I'm in the process of getting my divecon cert and find it disturbing that a few of the divecons who have already passed and are training new divers and conducting scuba reviews don't really have enough experience... some of them were just doing the bare minimum 20 feet at 20 mins to get their dive count up and this is in a lake with 5-15 foot vis (on a lucky day at that depth). In my mind, I think the diveshop owner/instructor should be watching this. They seem to be favoring her because she owes them money and the utilities companies arent going to be granting them more time to pay their bills...
I have less dives but have been diving in a variety of conditions as opposed to her with her 20 foot/ 20 mins dives. kinda irks me a bit
I have less dives but have been diving in a variety of conditions as opposed to her with her 20 foot/ 20 mins dives. kinda irks me a bit