PADI or UK Certified?

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:00:03 +0000, Morten Reistad wrote:

> leader/ teaching instructor abilities. If you do you will get stuck with
> buddies that need your attention. Ice Diver and Advanced Nitrox are good
> for this.

People say this, but it's never been my experience. If I show my trimix
card, there's a fair chance that half the people don't understand what it
means. I've also been asked if CMAS 3* was the same as AOW.

Showing a DM card has never got me lumbered with someone I need to look
after, usually it's quite the opposite. They find me someone experienced
so that I won't have to get out of the water with most of my air left.

But then, if they did try to get me to look after someone, I'd say no. And
I think most people who know me would agree that it's pretty obvious that
would be my response even if you've only just met me.

> The nightmare diver is the PADI OW one with bouts of 3-5 dives every year
> that is so inexperienced and rusty that [s]he (mostly a he) must be
> bebysat on dives; but refuses to pay for it, and has a self confidence to
> match.

Had one guy in Barbados. He was a rescue diver. He did his OW one year,
his AOW the next year, his rescue diver the year after and 2 dives in a
quarry. So basically had 11 dives over 3 years. Not surprisingly he was a
complete muppet.

However, I also dived with a Dutch girl in Australia who had done her OW,
then not dived for 9 months and couldn't remember how to put her reg on
properly. And she was fine when she got in the water.

Jason

--
http://www.scuba-addict.co.uk/ for trip reports including diving
the wreck of the President Coolidge in Santo, Vanuatu

Morten Reistad <firstname@lastname.pr1v.n0> wrote:

> Once you get experienced you
> want to stand out from the crowd without showing any divemaster/dive leader/
> teaching instructor abilities. If you do you will get stuck with buddies
> that need your attention.

That depends on what you tell the opperator. I tell them that I will not
accept a buddy who does not have a reasonal ability as a diver (usually
rescue and 10 to 20 recent dives minimum) unless they are going to
either pay me or greatly reduce the cost of the dive trip. As I am
paying full, or near full, price for the trip I have never been given a
buddy who needed babysitting / teaching attention. None of my buddies
have suggested that they were unhappy with me.

You are a customer not an employee so you do not have any need to accept
a 2nd rate trip because the dive shop is not willing to supply / charge
for the proffesional services other divers may need, or is not willing
to tell poor divers that that the must have a DM/instructor buddy and
pay for it.

--
>replace spamblock with my family name to e-mail me

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:40:16 +0900, warm-water-diver@spamblock.net
(Jerome Meekings) wrote:

>That depends on what you tell the opperator. I tell them that I will not
>accept a buddy who does not have a reasonal ability as a diver (usually
>rescue and 10 to 20 recent dives minimum) unless they are going to
>either pay me or greatly reduce the cost of the dive trip. As I am
>paying full, or near full, price for the trip I have never been given a
>buddy who needed babysitting / teaching attention. None of my buddies
>have suggested that they were unhappy with me.
>
>You are a customer not an employee so you do not have any need to accept
>a 2nd rate trip because the dive shop is not willing to supply / charge
>for the proffesional services other divers may need, or is not willing
>to tell poor divers that that the must have a DM/instructor buddy and
>pay for it.

I just take a wife with me
--
Pete
diving 'at' melbourne 'dot' me 'dot' uk

CAS shaked out during a surface intervall:
>>> Just waiting now for my first open water dive which will no doubt be a
>>> bit chilly!
>> We're doing that this weekend for some poor souls. 8-)
>> And my spare drysuit is in the shop for new seals.
> Hehehe - we're about to chuck ours into Loch Fyne in a couple of weeks
> time - it was 8 degrees when I was there two weeks ago!

8 thats warm water diving, may I come over, two week's ago it was 2 or
maybe a little less around 0 if you believe Linda's computer, but then
you would be freezing. Now we had 5 at best.

/ Balp, from a somewhat colder Sweden...
--
http://anders.arnholm.nu/ Keep on Balping

>>>> Just waiting now for my first open water dive which will no doubt be a
>>>> bit chilly!
>>> We're doing that this weekend for some poor souls. 8-)
>>> And my spare drysuit is in the shop for new seals.
>> Hehehe - we're about to chuck ours into Loch Fyne in a couple of weeks
>> time - it was 8 degrees when I was there two weeks ago!
>
> 8 thats warm water diving, may I come over, two week's ago it was 2 or
> maybe a little less around 0 if you believe Linda's computer, but then
> you would be freezing. Now we had 5 at best.
>
> / Balp, from a somewhat colder Sweden...

Anders,

I think I drunkenly promised at St Abbs last year to come over when I had
the time and money .

It still stands, I will come and bother you two at some point...

CAS

"CAS" <calumscottREMOVETHISBIT@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3butv7F6iegp1U1@individual.net...

>
> Anders,
>
> I think I drunkenly promised at St Abbs last year to come over when I had
> the time and money .
>
> It still stands, I will come and bother you two at some point...
>
> CAS

You must have been very drunk if you were seeing two of him <g>

Cliff.

CAS <calumscottREMOVETHISBIT@yahoo.com> skriver:
>> maybe a little less around 0 if you believe Linda's computer, but then
>> you would be freezing. Now we had 5 at best.
> It still stands, I will come and bother you two at some point...

The viz had been bad all winter, not over 7 meters.at least not any
time when I have gotten down in the water. Warm weather, storms and
raining have destroyed it... And now the algies have started... below
a meter around the surface, night diving around the clock :^)

/ Balp
--
http://anders.arnholm.nu/ Keep on Balping

>> Anders,
>>
>> I think I drunkenly promised at St Abbs last year to come over when I had
>> the time and money .
>>
>> It still stands, I will come and bother you two at some point...
>>
>> CAS
>
> You must have been very drunk if you were seeing two of him <g>
>

Grrrr....

He and Linda, his partner in crime...

Grrrr...

....although the Belhaven *was* flowing freely!

CAS