I think I have.I don’t think you’ve addressed Tom’s question of “why is that?”
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I think I have.I don’t think you’ve addressed Tom’s question of “why is that?”
I think I have.
If you were not already cave-certified I suspect you would feel differently about the value of the NSS-CDS.
Now you are either being silly or aggressive. Who said CDS was better than the others? How about the same? Happy now?
Insert TDI in place of CDS and your statement is still true.
Do we need a new set of procedures whereby no training is allowed unless YOU give the OK for that instructor?
Please, how do you "guarantee" quality cave instruction?
OK, I'll read between the lines for you. You are denigrating the CDS because they are not the "best," and then you agree no one is the best. You seem to agree there are some good CDS instructors, maybe 80% you said? That has got to be better than TDI. I see no issues with giving the student the choice of cave instructors and agencies.You definitely haven't. Your quote is below. The implication is that there is value to perspective cave divers, and I am genuinely curious what you think that value is.
So the best way to change things for the better is to burn them down?As for guaranteeing instructor quality. The NSS-CDS does not need to force itself to be PADI. The instructor pool is small enough and supposedly elite enough that it could be done. Jarrod Jablonski saw slow decay in the 90s and GUE was formed in part because the CDS refused to self-correct. A training director of the CDS was essentially removed because he had the audacity to argue to gas analysis and bottle marking should become a standard--that's the culture of CDS that reformers are up against.
Thank you.Interesting... but off topic.
The topic of this thread is to appeal to NSS-CDS members who might want to become a Board Member and do something positive for the organization. Let's respect the OP and return to that topic. You can always start a "What have you done for me lately?" thread for everyone to gripe in, but this about having a personal impact on the group.
OK, I'll read between the lines for you. You are denigrating the CDS because they are not the "best," and then you agree no one is the best. You seem to agree there are some good CDS instructors, maybe 80% you said? That has got to be better than TDI. I see no issues with giving the student the choice of cave instructors and agencies.
I don't see TDI or NAUI or IANTD protecting caves, or arranging access, or building steps.....
A question for you? How would YOUR perfect system work, in which all cave instructors are excellent and the agency they work for takes care of North Florida for you?
The fact that someone as experienced and in the know as Jim Wyatt could only provide a couple half-hearted and vague answers is very telling.
In all fairness to the CDS in regards to my disability to give good answers....I was away from cave country and the CDS for the past five years. I was living and diving and driving dive boats in Key Largo and was out of touch with the day-to-day operations of the CDS.