dodgy dive schools

[kazzer]

I've experienced some pretty appalling dive schools in Thailand and Belize and have heard some horror stories (where no-one asks to see your qualifications, where novices are taken to 30m without training, where no buddy system is used, etc) eleswhere.
As a journalist, I wondered how common this was in places nearer to home, ie Red Sea, Turkey, etc.
Could anyone who has experience of bad practice, please get in touch?

 

[Scuba Brad]

Sorry to hear that............this is a good place for feedback.

Happy Diving

 

[PaulChristenson]

I've experienced some pretty appalling dive schools in Thailand and Belize and have heard some horror stories (where no-one asks to see your qualifications, where novices are taken to 30m without training, where no buddy system is used, etc) eleswhere.
As a journalist, I wondered how common this was in places nearer to home, ie Red Sea, Turkey, etc.
Could anyone who has experience of bad practice, please get in touch?

Care to name names??

Paul in VT

 

[cummings66]

He's a journalist, they have ethics...

In other words, it's a first post and that profession is known to make up facts to suit the story they need. I don't trust any journalist farther than I can throw them. They all have an agenda and I just have to wonder what the story is he's trying to run with.

I could be wrong and this guy could be an upstanding journalist just trying to inform the public, and if I am I'm sorry I misread you.