Four dead in Italian cave

[boulderjohn]

I find it strange no dive industry organisations have put out statements or press releases?

I don't find it strange. I don't recall any dive industry organization ever putting out statements or press releases after an accident like this.

 

[cascas]

I find it strange no dive industry organisations have put out statements or press releases?

Why would they... Ever seen a statement from a car manufacturer because some driver abused a car they built and got killed ?

 

[papsje]

I am not talking about manufacuring brands. But about a teacher under the flag of a teachers organisation that does harm to students following or not following the rules and standards set by the teachers organisation. They better damn well respond!

 

[boulderjohn]

I am not talking about manufacuring brands. But about a teacher under the flag of a teachers organisation that does harm to students following or not following the rules and standards set by the teachers organisation. They better damn well respond!

Respond with a press conference? Why?

They do respond. We have just had two different examples on ScubaBoard about this. In one case a PDI instructor was removed from isntructor status after an accident with one of his students, and in another case an entire dive shop lost its PADI affiliation after an incident.

 

[mala]

I am not talking about manufacuring brands. But about a teacher under the flag of a teachers organisation that does harm to students following or not following the rules and standards set by the teachers organisation. They better damn well respond!

where the divers involved students or qualified divers?

i dont know.

 

[papsje]

Pressconference could be overkill, but a statement wouldn't be to weird.

 

[mdax]

I'd be stunned if Padi mailed their Italian dive centers in the area reminding them that untrained divers do not belong in the overhead. I think it takes all their energy cashing checks from DM's, instructors and divers...I believe their process is to remove dive centers AFTER they kill someone. If they are pre-death and taking new divers into overhead environments it's all good.

 

[Thalassamania]

Such a letter would be seen by PADI (I'm sure) as throwing a member (?) under the bus liability wise.

 

[heavierthanlead]

Who said anything about PADI?? The owner of the dive center, listed in a prior post as a "survivor", is an SSI trainer. Not that that matters, either...

 

[DevonDiver]

I am not talking about manufacuring brands. But about a teacher under the flag of a teachers organisation that does harm to students following or not following the rules and standards set by the teachers organisation. They better damn well respond!

There aren't any 'teachers organization'. There are agencies, which provide products; they mass produce 'professional divers', making money from that training, they produce 'courses' for those instructors to teach (they pay to teach them) and they supply marketing support as a 'brand label' to scuba businesses.

Don't for a second think that the major scuba agencies are not 'manufacturing brands'.