Nope that's not what I was asking for, but thanks for the unsolicited commercial for your shop.
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Why don't you address the following "ädvantages" of your 2 day format.
- Rushed students who are zoned out after spending back to back to back hours in classrooms and pools all in one weekend.
- Is the weekend wonder students actually safe to dive unsupervised when they are trained slightly better than a resort course.
- Are weekend courses actually just cash cows for diploma mill style dive schools who care nothing about quality but only making the bottom line.
- The so called advanced PADI training method of having the class watch a training video and parrot out the answers on a knowledge review 15 minutes after they see it.
-Miniminal retention of the theory they have managed to learn.
-The fact that some of these advanced dive schools provide rental textbooks for their students rather than providing them with one to keep. So after their hurry up course they don't even have a book to reference to. Of course the only reason this is done is so they can cut a few bucks off their course.
- Complaints from instructors around the country that they are having to retrain students in basic skills they should have perfected in their basic course.
These include mask clearing, emergency ascents, basic finning, buoyancy control, rescue skills etc, etc....
- What about the whole diving is for everyone marketing strategy that the weekend course demands.
Diving is a wonderful sport, but it is not for everyone and care must be taken by the shop who signs up the prospective student that people at risk or not suitable for accelerated training are thoroughly briefed.
Who exactly screens the 1500+ students that get signed up at this super school? Is it the clerk at the counter who has no scuba leadership qualifications or is it an instructor who should have the best interest of the student at heart and explains all the risks and benefits involved in the sport?
I will not go on as this whole discussion is a topic in itself and I feel that your entire view point is entrenched and possibly motivated by factors other than training quality.
As far as the scuba 2000 message board goes... I have no desire to post to a forum that removes the comments of people who disagree with the owner of the board.
This message board on the other hand is independent, full of interesting and informed people with honest strong opinions that are not controlled or disctated by the owner of the diving board.
I'll wait for your response before I answer your next question although I think I know what it is.
I'll bet you didn't guess right...:boom: