Interesting. Aren't the Skippers concerned about an unqualified person suing them if there is an incident? An interesting idea-- assuming someone is a capable diver if they go out on a boat. Then again, logic says anyone taking an OW course obviously knows how to swim and has been in water over their head before--no need for wasting time on a "swim" test. But that's only logic, not what today's society needs.
No, they are not, that is because suing is mostly a USA thing. In the rest of the world if you do something stupid and kill yourself, it is your fault, here if you do something stupid and kill yourself, it is somebody else's fault for not stopping you.
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