lol, that's only if they remembered to check that the isolator was open..........not that I haven't seen that happen about a hundred times............lol.
That's what you get when you're minimum standard is so low for so long. A complete gaggle of agencies with the upper echelon having zero clue about what is truly needed, or at least admitting it and have the nads to change it.
Shoot, 100 scuba deaths or so a year in North America must be good enough, and I guess it is if you're not part of that group.
Really goes to prove how long you can dodge a bullet with minimal skill. The problem is the agencies are leveraging that one to the hilt and always ready to shift them blame elsewhere.
Warren:
Good to see you stopped teaching those AOW's.
It really is the only way to go for anyone with a clue AND a conscience.
Unfortunately the shop you're speaking of biggest problem is not the doubles or no doubles debate, but more so a pile of minimal standard morons with no clue about what safe means. And I have more than one written student comments plus personal observations to prove that without a doubt. I think Padi must love a little too much the amount of money that guy brings them, because they ain't stopping a thing.
Quality training in a time frame typically given by a shop is just not doable. You just end up butting heads or doing a shi44y job, neither of which will work more than once before you decide you're so conflicted with what is going on that you may as well just stop doing it.
Unless you have a seriously committed LDS owner, and quite frankly I have yet to see even one in our entire province willing to run a quality class, you will end up frustrated and then either quit or go out on your own, where you can do what you want, when you want, for whatever you feel is the appropriate amount of renumeration, and not have to worry about the typical BS that it seems to plague the industry.
