When should a shop request your C-Card?

[Bob DBF]

I wanted to vote for "Any dive merchandise" just for the fame, but I couldn't do it.

Cards are required by operators that want to see them for any reason they care to give. So far air and dive trips are the ones that seem universal although I have never had to actually show a card on a boat trip yet, just sign in with a number.



Bob
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I may be old, but I’m not dead yet.

 

[HowardE]

This poll is seriously missing the NONE button.

 

[sharksdelight]

Suppose a non diver wants to purchase dive equipment as a gift for someone. A store would have to be crazy in this economical time, not to be permitted to sell them a new reg, bc or tank. -Steve

 

[Cadillac Diveguy]

Sharksdelight, I never gauge policy against my checkbook. I wouldn't sell myself for a reg. However, a little common sense goes a long way. I know who my customers are, and after awhile, there families. So no, I wouldn't cut someone short for a gift that I know is going to a diver (certified diver).

 

[StuartT]

Buying a seat on a vacation boat charter so the op can try to split the group by experience

 

[billmas]

Buying a seat on a vacation boat charter so the op can try to split the group by experience

But surely a card doesn't indicate experience? A log book maybe, but not a card?

Regards
Bill

 

[k374]

well, I have dived a few times, some of them deep dives, without ever being asked for my C-Card! Sometimes it's all about the $$$.

But more troubling, in many cases there are terribly inexperienced certified divers being brought to extremely challenging dive sites, accidents just waiting to happen! Struggling dive ops sometimes can feel the pressure not to turn away customers based on ethics alone!

 

[lsorenson]

But surely a card doesn't indicate experience? A log book maybe, but not a card?

Regards
Bill

Not really sure how a log book would prove anything other than someone took the time to fill it out... rightly or wrongly...!!! A spare 30 minutes and I bet you could add about 35 to 40 logged dives... Just remember to swap pens and pencils from time to time for the proper effect... you may want to swap hands and be sure to stain and wrinkle a few pages in the process...

The only way to really know is to dive with them... maybe someone you really trust can vouch but that can backfire as well at times...!

lee

 

[Bob DBF]

This poll is seriously missing the NONE button.

Give me the "good old days" when a 16 year old kid can fill a tank at the local compressed gas outfit. Didn't have a card 'cause the book I learned SCUBA from didn't have a card in it. Come to think of it, I could have bought Oxygen and Helium and mixed my own gas if anyone had figured how mix it back then, probably can now but since I'm not a fan I haven't tried.

The personal responsibility bus has left, and this system we have is the result.


Bob
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I may be old, but I’m not dead yet.

 

[lsorenson]

well, I have dived a few times, some of them deep dives, without ever being asked for my C-Card! Sometimes it's all about the $$$.

But more troubling, in many cases there are terribly inexperienced certified divers being brought to extremely challenging dive sites, accidents just waiting to happen! Struggling dive ops sometimes can feel the pressure not to turn away customers based on ethics alone!

Could not agree more and witnessed more than once by myself!

lee