No one would like my answers to training because I never trained to the minimum standards. Needless to say there would be far fewer cave divers and far less damage to the systems. Oh well. We'll all pay for it one way or another in the end.
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So are you saying we should reduce training standards because some people violate the current ones?
I keep seeing "For Profit Agencies" but I hear "I don't want to pay the course curriculum".
Boredom has nothing to with the equation.
Slow progressive training with gained experience between certification levels is the point. Not to jack you for your loot.
I did read the response that's why I posted the way I did.
He said people were breaking standards so we might as well change them to suit what's happening.
Did you take something different from his examples?
completely wrong, because IF that was the point, the agencies would have required dives between the courses and wouldn't allow them to be combined in either 2+2 or all in one go. GUE and NAUI both have required logged cave dives between cave 1 and cave 2. Neither TDI, PSAI, IANTD, CDS, or NACD have any required logged dives for experience, so try again
no, but that has nothing to do with making them lax. It just means changing with the times. If people are violating the standards and diving to thirds and making a jump, why not change your training progression to match what people are clearly wanting to do. I.e. GUE/NAUI which says you get to dive to close to thirds for GUE or thirds for NAUI and make 1/2 navigational decisions. Both of their cave 1 courses are MORE stringent than Intro from any of the for-profit *TDI, IANTD, PSAI* or the historic agencies *CDS/NACD*, so why do you think we are advocating for less stringent standards?