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These posts have been graciously moved by Teamcasa from another thread where they were a bit off topic.
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I find it hard to believe that someone can become a "certified" diver who can not perform a simple gas calculation and that intelligent people can stand around and wring their hands over whether such gas calculations are "elaborations" of "exceedings," and thus permitted or prohibited. In my view this is foolishness bordering on the medieval Scholastic.... However, there are some - intelligent, capable people - who do not see this as flexible, but as restrictive. And, in good conscience, those individuals probably are not comfortable agreeing to do things PADI's way.
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I would not require them to perform a gas calculation exercise, and then deny them certification if they could not perform it - that would be exceeding standards. But, that is part of the presumed flexibility of the system, I guess - I also would not criticize the instructor you reference, for their conclusion that it would be exceeding standards.
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