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OK, read it over.
I suspect that the information presented to you in the class itself, was slanted and thus incorrect. That makes it really hard for you, still at a stage in you life where you lack healthy cynicism and believe the "authorities." That was why I asked for the links to the actual documents.
So, we're gotten that straightened out, yes? The lesson here, for you, is don't believe everything you read, or hear, especially when it comes in a dive instructor related class ... 90% of which is horse pucky passed on to the candidate by an Officious Dufus, who learned it from another Officious Dufus, and so on and so forth, up the pyramid scheme to the top, where there sits, the Most Officious Dufus who also never actually read the documents and/or never actually did the dive.
As far as the question of "education" is concerned: I doubt that there is anyone here who does not respect quality diving education. But those of us who've been around long enough to have had the Taylors as dive buddies rather than on our wall know the rather stark limitations of the current system of diver training, especially at the lower levels and the "Pro" courses. Consider for a moment, if current training of divers and "Pros" was truly adequate ... would there be any need for mandatory Standards of Practice? Of course not! I've run diving safety programs for most of my adult life, and I've had this guiding principal: "A properly trained diver does not need regulations because he or she has internalized all those things needed to minimize the risks. No diver has ever been rescued by a regulation, it is his or her skill and knowledge that prevents small issues from snowballing into much larger ones."
I suspect that the information presented to you in the class itself, was slanted and thus incorrect. That makes it really hard for you, still at a stage in you life where you lack healthy cynicism and believe the "authorities." That was why I asked for the links to the actual documents.
So, we're gotten that straightened out, yes? The lesson here, for you, is don't believe everything you read, or hear, especially when it comes in a dive instructor related class ... 90% of which is horse pucky passed on to the candidate by an Officious Dufus, who learned it from another Officious Dufus, and so on and so forth, up the pyramid scheme to the top, where there sits, the Most Officious Dufus who also never actually read the documents and/or never actually did the dive.
As far as the question of "education" is concerned: I doubt that there is anyone here who does not respect quality diving education. But those of us who've been around long enough to have had the Taylors as dive buddies rather than on our wall know the rather stark limitations of the current system of diver training, especially at the lower levels and the "Pro" courses. Consider for a moment, if current training of divers and "Pros" was truly adequate ... would there be any need for mandatory Standards of Practice? Of course not! I've run diving safety programs for most of my adult life, and I've had this guiding principal: "A properly trained diver does not need regulations because he or she has internalized all those things needed to minimize the risks. No diver has ever been rescued by a regulation, it is his or her skill and knowledge that prevents small issues from snowballing into much larger ones."
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