| Yes, I think that is the problem with shop clubs. Remember that PADI don't actually have clubs, and shop club are really under the auspices of no-one, even if they are a PADI school.
It generally appears to me (although not all shops are the same) that the trips run are simply profit-making extensions. If no-one is teaching then they have no responsibility over anyone who dives with them, even though people who might have been students with their school may feel it to be a "safe" way of diving.
Another way of looking at it is that the shop=staff get subsidised diving for a weekend and will be keen to do sites that they want to do....
Divers either have to take their progression into their own hands and be sensible about it (which is what Caroline and I did) or join a club that tells them what they are ready to do.
You can't fall in between like this guy seems to do... |