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That's all any of us are offering ...... In your opinion.
I agree ... so wouldn't it be nice to be qualifying our opinions by stating the conditions in which we're offering them?I on the other hand, believe that it's wise to have the appropriate equipment for the conditions that you are diving in. If the conditions do not require it, I would agree with your statement. However my local conditions warrant wearing one in my opinion.
What skills in any agency's Rescue program require the use of a snorkel as a condition of the rescue?I agree that context is everything, but disagree with your statement. I train divers to rescue their buddy, as is required by many training agencies. Every time they dive, they may be called upon to perform a rescue. In this there is no difference from a rescue swimmer's function.
I believe it's important to offer my students and the readers of this forum my honest opinion and the reasons why I have it. When I am teaching, I absolutely follow the standards and requirements of my agency. When I teach, I absolutely promote them. I do, however, qualify those positions in my class by telling my students what those requirements are, why they are requirements, and why ... when appropriate ... I disagree with them.Nevertheless, it is a requirement. I don't personally believe an Instructor should drift too far away from what their Agency requires; especially in a public forum designated for "basic diver discussion."
I am not training robots ... I'm training people under the presumption that diving is an unregulated activity, and the best way to train safe divers is to teach them to think for themselves. I will not hide behind standards as a way to promote ignorance or a deviation from what my agency believes to be correct. And the reason I chose NAUI as my agency is because I don't have to.
As an example, NAUI promotes buddy diving. When I am teaching ... when I am training at any level ... I promote not just buddy diving, but buddy skills well above and beyond what my agency says I need to teach. That doesn't prevent me from solo diving outside of the class. I do believe it's important to set an example to my students. I do that through appropriate planning and execution of whatever dives I choose to do.
You are free to believe whatever your choose, and to state your beliefs. I am free to agree or disagree with them. That's the value of a conversation ...Bob, I don't believe that I have overstated anything.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)