Good Place to Learn Scuba and Become Certified?

Excuse me? take your snideness elsewhere. this must be how you get your
kicks. do you pull wings off flies too?

"shawn" <shawnabbtt@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1114091387.407244.158060@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> Excuse me? take your snideness elsewhere. this must be how you get your
> kicks. do you pull wings off flies too?
>
I totally agree with you. Some of his posts just add nothing to the
discussion. He is either an old 57-year geezer with a grudge against the
whole world or a 12-year old with something stuck up his rear end. In either
case, a real "bonehead"!

"punk-tilous" <punktilious@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I totally agree with you. Some of his posts just add nothing to the
> discussion. He is either an old 57-year geezer with a grudge against the
> whole world or a 12-year old with something stuck up his rear end. In
> either case, a real "bonehead"!

So tell me why you believe a half-day of pool instruction, after entirely
on-line instruction, is sufficient to enable someone to obtain a
certification card that allows them to dive anywhere in the world without
supervision. Are you a PADI course director?

Why even bother with in-person pool instruction when you can watch a video
instead?

"punk-tilous" <punktilious@hotmail.com> writes:

> "shawn" <shawnabbtt@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1114091387.407244.158060@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> > Excuse me? take your snideness elsewhere. this must be how you get your
> > kicks. do you pull wings off flies too?
> >
> I totally agree with you. Some of his posts just add nothing to the
> discussion. He is either an old 57-year geezer with a grudge against the
> whole world or a 12-year old with something stuck up his rear end. In either
> case, a real "bonehead"!

Same shit, different newsgroup really. You'll find pedants in any
population. I just got done making a similar observation in a photo
newsgroup when the goose -tepping groupthink photonazi's were thumbing
their nose at any third party lens maker vs manufacturer's lenses even
when there is a compelling price/performance argument to made for
third party glass.

So, here though was have a classic example of "thou shalt be certified
the same way I was certified" Scuba-Nazi's cruft.

Dont' let it get to ya. Dive, be safe, have fun. Don't let crabby
fault-finding people make ya toss the baby out with the bathwater that
is Usenet.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

t@toddh.net (Todd H.) pounded away at his keyboard resulting in:
:Same shit, different newsgroup really. You'll find pedants in any
opulation. I just got done making a similar observation in a photo
:newsgroup when the goose -tepping groupthink photonazi's were thumbing
:their nose at any third party lens maker vs manufacturer's lenses even
:when there is a compelling price/performance argument to made for
:third party glass.
:
:So, here though was have a classic example of "thou shalt be certified
:the same way I was certified" Scuba-Nazi's cruft.

I missed the compelling argument that half a day of pool work was
sufficient for a basic Open Water certification. Could someone show
it to me please?

Dan Bracuk
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Dan, are you and Greg picking on these boys? Shame on you for picking on
somebody so defenseless.

Shawn, you're being a twit. You got your certification from the least
respected agency in the world, bar none. Nobody but you is impressed.

The people you are arguing with have been diving longer than your agency has
been in existance. At least one of them is an instructor and, perhaps an
instructor developer. Both of them travel the world to dive. They're not
exactly beginners at diving or at giving advice on line.

The most common statement in dive education is that it is the instructor
that counts, not the agency. You didn't have an instructor at all. While
it's possible for some to do the academic portion of a course without direct
participation by an instructor, the chances or missing something important
are a lot higher than they are with lots of face to face interaction with
somebody that knows his subject and how to teach. It's only possible for
somebody to get the in water basics in a 24 hour period if they already have
them at the beginning of the period. It works for those who learned from
other activities like snorkeling, skin diving or resort course instruction,
but it almost never works for those that didn't.

We're glad you learned all you need to know and we're glad you mastered all
the skills necessary to be a safe diver. Not everybody can. We'll believe
you really did when we see you demonstrate your diving skills in the water
or read posts that indicate that, if we do dive together, we'll feel
comfortable with you around. So far, you're not doing real well.

Lee

Thus spake "shawn" <shawnabbtt@aol.com> :

>Excuse me? take your snideness elsewhere. this must be how you get your
>kicks. do you pull wings off flies too?

Context?

--
dillon

Women should be obscene and not absurd.