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[Subcooled]

PADI is business. Specialty courses are income. Sometimes they even might be beneficial.

A few more ideas:

Cold weather diver (for icing ow conditions)
Hot & humid diver - dehydration specialist
Crab collector & cook diver
Fashion diver - seasons colors

It's kind of fun, but shouldn't diving be

So yeah, lion fish specialty course (or whatever) may be great fun for a holiday diver.

 

[Surface Interval]

We met a LionFish certification instructor at DEMA.

 

[Pullmyfinger]

When I want to learn more about sharks, whales, or lionfish I won't be looking to PADI to be the educator.

-Mitch

 

[Hank49]

This may be a little like teaching rattle snake catching to tourists in Arizona.
If you handle these all the time, you're likely going to get stung by one. By all accounts, major pain.
I did a lot of Crown of Thorns collecting in the Philippines. Got stung twice. Hard to be that careful every time you're handling something like that.

 

[Farback]

How about (or more correctly, 'aboot'; as I am from the great white north), a contest for the best idea for a new PADI Specialty?

1 - Rolling off the boat and hitting the water two out of three times.

 

[SCUBA482]

We met a LionFish certification instructor at DEMA.

BTW, Nice threads SI clothing..just got my order saaaweeett...sorry to hijack, but thought i'd drop a line of kuddos to SI clothing!

 

[aquaregia]

This is my favorite:

 

[SCUBA482]

This is my favorite:

that's funny...lol

 

[on_two_wheels]

Here's the thing about the lionfish issue....HUMANS are incredibly short sighted. We feel the need to control everything. There are plenty of predatory creatures in locations they didn't originate in. Nature has a better ability to create it's own balance than we do. Right now they are causing a LOT of problems. However, this is divers/snorkelers playground so we're all aware of it. If we never went underwater in these areas, I'm sure we could go there 100 years from now and not even realize lionfish weren't native.

Ironically, if the course is REALLY successful, it will eventually no longer be taught. After all, it is currently referred to as Lionfish Awareness and Elimination Course. Rather than take a bunch of "awareness" courses, why not take actual collegiate courses in marine biology, marine environment and conservation? I know....those take time, studying and you're not virtually guaranteed to pass.

 

[Pullmyfinger]

Rather than take a bunch of "awareness" courses, why not take actual collegiate courses in marine biology, marine environment and conservation? I know....those take time, studying and you're not virtually guaranteed to pass.

Exactly what I had in mind.

-Mitch