wardric:If you are a good ol' quebecois, you have to make at least 10 dives in 3 years to avoid the exam but you still have to pay for your friggin' Q-card. How can that be serious. First, it's easy to forge false dives and second, even if you made the dives, does 3 dives a year garanty that you'll be a safer diver???
True enough......Big difference between skill levels of someone who averages 5-10 (tropical vacation) dives/year over 20 years and someone who is "new" to the sport but has logged 50+ dives/year over 3-4 years in the great lakes & st.Lawrence river.