Why is it fine for an accepted agency to only teach you how to use your computer!? Shady buiesness aside, SDA provided a good class, yet SDI is better why, because of the name? The standards they teach to?
What makes one agency ok and the other not? Alot of people on this board are very quick to bash PADI and some of its buiesness practices, so does that make PADI a scam? SDI teaches you how to use your computer for $110, is that a scam or awesome marketing?
I don't want to bash any single agency, but you have to be fair to all, you can't just dismiss SDA becuase you never heard of them. On PADIs site I went on to see which agencies they recongnized and there were tons I never heard of. Are they any worse or better then anything else out there? I have no idea, but if I was leading a dive and asked to see someone's cert and it was from one of the agencies I never heard of, who am I to judge?