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| Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman ....
The entry level training bar is set very low IMO, but if your main role in life is to sell training courses then the current regime seem to suit. If your role was to create life long safe enthusiastic divers then I think you would approach it differently.
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Surely the entry level training is to create a group of people that can then decide if they wish to become lifelong safe enthusiasts or if they want to do a 6m bimble off Ras Mohamed with a DM?
Its hardly the fault of PADI that the schools do not make new divers realise that the Rescue Diver course is the bottom rung of the qualified diver ladder. Up to that point you are still learning the ropes.
Well done to GUE for recognising rescue skills are a core part of training for the lifelong diver. My agency grumble is the availability of "advanced" courses (like deco procedures) without the RD element having been done. I do, in all honesty, see a role for the current Open Water/Ocean Diver level certifications.
Chris