Are you saying an instructors patch is not an accomplishment?
Yes. You're an instructor without the patch
Do you have a bumper sticker on your car that says you have a driver's license?
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Are you saying an instructors patch is not an accomplishment?
I'm saying the patches I've seen displayed are for classes that I consider substandard.
Yes. You're an instructor without the patch
Do you have a bumper sticker on your car that says you have a driver's license?
Nope...but I do have one that says I am a pilot...and my wife's has a dive flag.
I guess I should just pull them off. Again...we have someone come to disdain people that somehow visibly show their accomplishments. I just find that sad.....
AquaExplorer:Ahhh...so your issue is not the patches but that they come from (my guess PADI) some substandard group?
AquaExplorer:What if they were all NAUI patches? What about GUE?
AquaExplorer:BTW...what is a "good" standard for learning to dive? Honestly curious as to your view on this.
SailNaked:It is starting to dawn on me that maybe other agencies besides PADI do not make patches, and that there may be some inter agency rivalry going on with them.
OK so you have been doing the instruction game awhile and now you have a pile of nice badges that came with your certifications. If you do a search here on SB you will discover that there is a stigma against displaying them proudly on a dive trip. OK so what do you do with them? There is not any rank in diving but we do say things like a "higher level of diving" so how come I cant display my badges? I earned them, they gave them to me? and they might save me from listening to a nublits silly story about the time he dove to 60 ft and almost died when he discovered he had 300# of air.
I do not want to be the "look at me, I'm the Dude" kind of thing but I would like it known That I can teach 10 specialties if that were the case.
My latest idea is to sew them to my dive bag, that way it is not in your face on my chest or anything, but subtle. any thoughts Ideas on placement of the badges or should I just toss them and . unfortunately I was in the USMC and I like the Badges, What am I to do?