[Mal Bridgeman]

Originally Posted by Steve S

I was lucky that none of my instructors had closed minds.

Having a closed mind is not the same thing as having a standardised system which has been optimised over many thousands of diving hours which I am sure you are aware. A dogma is different to being able to understand the rationale of a design choice and then testing it in water.

Some students tip up to courses with closed minds and miss out too you know

Unfortunately, too many people are getting hurt, diving systems/configs/procedures they have designed/developed themselves.

Mal