namabiru:
That's how I interpreted the ad as well. I also agree with Guba's point, where there are certain caveats to the 'guaranteed passing', where you turn up having studied your homeworks and are ready with questions, you work hard during your diving, you ask questions, you improve your skills, and your instructors are able to identify your weak spots (or you identify them too) and are willing to work with you on those points to shore up your skills. Which is what makes a good teacher in any occupation--.
… We've had a couple from Mermaids on SB.
I must apologize, we’re all going at cross purposes here. What I found so amusing was that they were offering a guarantee to pass a program that has such a low bar to begin with. Now if they were guaranteeing an LA County ITC, or a GUE-f that’d be another story.
daniel f aleman:
lazyturtle has it right. And, critizing PADI, and their instructors, is a waste of time and misplaced sanctimonial statements. If one is dissatisfied with the PADI program, go elsewhere.
Dan, come on, lazyturtle’s a nice guy but he’s got his head up his … er … shell.
If you’re dissatisfied with the conversation you have, basically, four options, you can:
- engage it and see how your arguments hold up,
- whine to the MODs and report it and see if you can get it shut down,
- or just add those of us whom you find sanctimonious to your ignore list, or
- link
BTW: Do you actually know what the word “sanctimonial” means? It’s kind of nonsensical in the context that you are using it.
You can call us hyperactive, hydrocephalic, hypoblastic, hypocoristic, hypodermatic or hypodicrotic, hyponastic, hypostatic and hypothetic if you must. We are defiantly hyperbaric and quite possibly hyperbatic. But we're never hpercatalectic, though we're sometimes hyperkinetic. We might answer to hippocratic and a few to hypothetical … but never, never, never to hypocritical, which is an essential ingredient of sanctimoniousness.