lulubelle
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If you assert that you have the right to lie on the medical questionaire, doesn't it logically follow that the dive op has the right to be dishonest with you?
Perhaps it would be okay with you if they kind of fudge their compressor maintenance records, or their DM's actual dive qualifications, or the safety of their boat, so as not to "make everyone's life difficult by disclosing it"?
Sorry for the delay, on the road working.
I think you too are seeing this as an either/or, black/white decision, and it simply isn't. When I sign the medical form, I commit to being medically cleared to dive as assessed by my physician and to disclose medical information that is relevant for my non medical dive op to know.
It is silly to compare the omission of medical information which a physician has deemed irrelevant to diving safety to the proper maintenance of the dive boat, proper training of the dive ops staff, or proper compressor procedures, all of which are obviously required for safe diving. Kind of like comparing apples to antelopes.
If dive shops were covered entities under HIPAA, I might feel differently. But anyone who doesn't believe they should closely guard their medical information needs to wake up and understand the implications of not doing so.
Kingpatzer answered in exactly the way I would have, so I won't repeat the same statement here.