Continuing Ed. or just paying to dive..

[MikeFerrara]

HA!
Not me!
I do it for the big bucks!
Why, last year alone I made....
lemme see, here,
looking through the taxes...
flip, flip, flip... here we go, schedule C, scuba diving instructor...
Wait a minute!
That's a (negative) number!
How can that be??? I had over a hundred students, many of them con-ed, and overcharged every one!
With greed and avarice in my heart!
Must be my math.
Rick

I think your math is probably sound.

 

[MikeFerrara]

MikeF says:
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"Oh right. Next you're going to say they should be using pony bottles too."
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Mike, I am not going to argue my opinion with you, you have your and that is mine. Apparently Thalasmania has a similar approach in mind. The BSAC has high standards, I am sorry that most US diver training programs are sorely lacking but actually, what I described pretty much describes my NAUI instruction in 1966 with some improvements. Again, that is my opinion, you have yours --we just don't agree on anything --maybe they should use doubles with isolating manifolds like you do? As to the pony, if you don't like them don't use them--who appointed you the pony expert for every pony thread? Others have valid opinions which as I freely admit mine are---you give yours as fact. Fortunately, they are not fact and I have been around enough to know that. N

Ummm, how do I put this? That was a joke to raz you about the pony. I didn't mean to upset you.

No one thinks less of current training than I do.

 

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The BSAC has high standards, I am sorry that most US diver training programs are sorely lacking but actually,

If by BSAC you mean the british agency im sorry that isnt true. Their main issue is a lack of standards meaning so much is open to interpretation you get everything from very good to very bad depending on club/instructor and so on.

 

[caseybird]

Did anyone learn anything from this thread?

It's like the crack cocaine of threads, I hate it, but I can't stop reading.

Anyway, have a nice evening, all.:11doh:

 

[Twiddles]

Yes, at least one person did.