grantwiscour
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I'm usually asked when I did my last dive when booking with a dive op. It seems that I remember w/o diving in 6 months a refresher course is needed.
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As John said, neither of these accidents had to do with faded skills or lack of refreshers since one was not certified and the other was a regular, experienced diver.
I think if you had mentioned a couple of the Cozumel cruise ship divers who had perished in the last few years, among others, those would have a lot more to do with requiring recent experience or refreshers, and checking that dives are not beyond a diver's training or experience, especially in Cozumel.
There are scuba deaths every year. This year is no different.
Awap:If a valid driver's license is enough for a rental car agency or car dealer, why should a dive op require anything more than a C-card?
When we head to the day boat the next day, the answer to the question "When was you last dive?" is "Yesterday."
DivemasterDennis
Lesson Learned: "anything you say can and will be used against you......"Lesson Learned: Don't go more than 12 months without diving!
Lesson Learned: "anything you say can and will be used against you......"
Regardless of environment or experience level, the lesson plan always starts with "safety first".
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
What I find surprising here, is when a diver dies, or has an accident, a lot of people say: "dangerous dive operations", "bad instructors", poor training", "stupid guide".
When we see a video showing a/some diver(s) obviously lacking training/experience, again: "dangerous dive operations", bad instructors", poor training", stupid guide".
When some dive operations take a step to try to keep people safe (because there are not only experienced divers who want to dive, and before becoming experienced, we all were beginners. As well as not all divers have the opportunity to dive as often as they would like) a lot of people start to say: "this is stupid".
Is it that wrong to ask to divers to be able to prove their experience?
And if the diver is able to prove his experience, showing that he is an active diver, his last dive happened recently (less than 3 months ago), for me it's easy, lets jump on the boat!