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No matter how good your training is, no matter how good your instructor is, as long as people have free will, there will always be that small subset of people...
Which goes back to an earlier comment about individual attitude and willingness to learn.
Thal is quick to dismiss and belittle PADI instructors, regardless of their background or his ignorance thereof, without recognizing that part of the instruction PADI student receive is a strong admonition to continue their training in both formal and informal ways, to always observe the safety rules they've been taught, to continually practice and refine their skills, and so on.
People like me who settle on what to him amounts to life threatening training still somehow manage to turn into moderately competent divers because we do those things. Learning to clear a mask or do an air share is easy. Continually practicing and refining those skills is a matter of individual attitudes. It is not something an instructor can ensure, no matter how good they happen to be.