The day I got my c-card, and that was 34 years ago and I'm still live and well. I think Ana has put it very well. Now I can't speak for any other then me.....things where alot diffrent In the day I got my card (I know younger divers hate to hear this....Tuff) The YMCA that I got my card was also the Y that I did Judo and the same guy the was teaching Judo was doing the diver training and it was like boot camp YOU learned how to dive. Now I had to get a new c-card a few years back so I can tell what it's not like that now, and it's weak, really weak. So do I think that people getting there cards today should go solo right out of open water? No, but but if some one right out of open water was to ask me what he needs to learn to safly do solo diving I would not jump down his throut and screem at him and tell him he has to do 100 dives, I would tell him about the books and DVD's he NEEDS to read and view and the training he needs to do. Just what happens at the 100th dive that all of a sudden makes some one ready for solo diving???? It still comes down to training for solo diving, I mean like at 100 dives dose this mean you know how to deploy a lift bag on a reel? There are some divers that for whatever reson thy have are going to solo dive (no mater how many dives they have) shuld we turn them away cuz they don't meet what we think they shold have as a track record? I,m not worried about giving some one the info,,,,I,m worried about NOT giving the info and then hearing about there death.
This is just what I think about this isue and by no means do I wish a trud tossing.