Soggy
Contributor
I choose to drive on the road, rather than slide into a ditch.
Plastic represents formal training, which translates to book knowledge of a skill. Experience represents ability and translates to safety...ideally, anyhow. Both are necessary to be a safe diver.
This is analgous to the MCSE IT certification track. There are many "paper MCSEs"...these are the people that have read the books, done the practice tests, paid the money, taken the tests and passed. They can answer the questions Microsoft says they need to know in order to be certified. However, this does not mean that they have real world troubleshooting/implementation experience. There are also people who have lots of experience, but haven't read the books, and may not be implementing or fixing things the best way. They could benefit from going down the certification track.
I believe the same is true of SCUBA diving. I hold an AOW card with a deep diving specialty. However, I won't be doing 100ft dives any time soon. I lack the experience to do this safely. I'll start at my current max depth and work my way down from there as I feel more comfortable. I have the knowledge, but not the hands on experience to be safe.
Plastic represents formal training, which translates to book knowledge of a skill. Experience represents ability and translates to safety...ideally, anyhow. Both are necessary to be a safe diver.
This is analgous to the MCSE IT certification track. There are many "paper MCSEs"...these are the people that have read the books, done the practice tests, paid the money, taken the tests and passed. They can answer the questions Microsoft says they need to know in order to be certified. However, this does not mean that they have real world troubleshooting/implementation experience. There are also people who have lots of experience, but haven't read the books, and may not be implementing or fixing things the best way. They could benefit from going down the certification track.
I believe the same is true of SCUBA diving. I hold an AOW card with a deep diving specialty. However, I won't be doing 100ft dives any time soon. I lack the experience to do this safely. I'll start at my current max depth and work my way down from there as I feel more comfortable. I have the knowledge, but not the hands on experience to be safe.