Is PADI bad?

[Joshv2]

heck in some places you can ONLY get a PADI course. The 3 LDSs within 2 hours of me only offer PADI.

 

[paolov]

lol, maybe you only hear about PADI horror stories because of their success and the fact that the likes of BSAC / SSAC for example are jealous as hell!

Why are they jealous? prob cos they are so incompetently run that they manage to consistently make a loss and lose members.

(If everyone else is gonna make sweeping statements then so am I!!!)

ouch :11:

i'll just watch this thread .....

 

[DORSETBOY]

lol, it was MAINLY sad in jest... honest!

 

[Don Burke]

lol, maybe you only hear about PADI horror stories because of their success and the fact that the likes of BSAC / SSAC for example are jealous as hell!

Why are they jealous? prob cos they are so incompetently run that they manage to consistently make a loss and lose members.

(If everyone else is gonna make sweeping statements then so am I!!!)

While the above was said mainly in jest, there is much truth in it.

Many dive shops have gone under because the owners never caught on that it was no longer a hobby for them.

While I do not agree with everything PADI does, they have indeed figured out how to make a business out of it. Much of the criticism of PADI seems to center around making a profit.

Even altruists have to eat.