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<font color='#000080'>I agree that it is wrong to have a DM/DL with little or no sea experience as is the fact that people will dive to their cert' limits without build up sea dives.
The only problem IMO is that legislation could open a can of worms as in "do warm water dives count the same as cold water dives" etc.
I can only speak for my BSAC club in that anyone trained in fresh water would have to do their 1st sea dives with a NQI
and a person going for dive leader must have done at least 50 uk sea dives, also all our students are taught how to work out air requirements from their 2nd o/w dive and dsmb deployment from the 4th dive.
With regard to St Abbs I have done 20+ dives there and have always my done homework re:tides etc before setting off also a quick check with the h/master is always a good thing as one time he said to make the dive no longer than 30mins as it was going to get lumpy, he was right and no agency can teach that.
Safe diving,
Steve.
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