teknitroxdiver
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What is the exact difference? I would want to know that first...
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dscheck:...I have read the manuals and watched the videos, yet every dive shop I have been to will not just give me the cert for passing an exam and it does not cost any more to do the dives. So the "milk you for more money" aguement is moot.
It sounds like you could provide more value and make more money by having the students analyze ten cylinders and plan and log ten "paper" dives.Rick Murchison:If you believe that a "dive" is just that part of the process from the time you hit the water until the time you get out... then I suppose there is some reasoning in "no difference."
But to me a "dive" begins with the decision to go and doesn't end until completion of the debrief and logbook entries afterward - and to me there are enough differences and enough lessons to be learned by actually doing the dives to make them worthwhile.
I require two dives in my Nitrox course.
I make big bucks on those dives too! Why sometimes I almost break even But it hasn't happened yet.
Rick
Don Burke:It sounds like you could provide more value and make more money by having the students analyze ten cylinders and plan and log ten "paper" dives.
That would appear to be a "win-win".
dscheck: