Training Agencies

[wreckweasel]

Trust me suze... it can be great fun. I've been on a few boats, doing 60m stuff for a chuckle when some BSAC fella comes out with "you BSAC mate"......you wanna watch their expression when they hear "PADI...."

Divings like everything, it has its fair share of tossers.... evenly distributed amongst the agencies

[Suzanne]

Nice one!  

I personally don't subscribe to the argument, I was just making smalltalk but i guess he only has to hear the word 'padi' to set him off  

[Fiona]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Suzanne @ Mar. 09 2004,10:56)]oooooooh!  I'm so cross!!!!    

Just sat down to a meeting at work with a contractor when the contractor started talking about his RIB, talk got round to diving and my boss chirps up "you should talk to Sue - she's a diver".

Anyway - this guy tells me he does deep wrecks in the channel - BSAC, 20 years standing.   So I jovially tell him i'm PADI trained......to which he then laid into me saying 'there's no argument for PADI, 6 months in the pool, blah blah blah - I was totally slammed down!!!

Now excuse me but GET STUFFED!!!    Tw@ts like that really bake my noodle!  grrrr!!!

<font color='#0000FF'>Bet that contractor will not win anything else then &nbsp;

Either way that was just ignorance on his part, best ignored in my book.

FB

[Fathoms Down]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Suzanne @ Mar. 09 2004,10:56)]So I jovially tell him i'm PADI trained......to which he then laid into me saying 'there's no argument for PADI, 6 months in the pool, blah blah blah - I was totally slammed down!!!

I was orignally PADI trained and I have only been in a pool once; the test of my confined water training does in Maldivian lagoons. The odd thing was that when I came to do my TDI course I found I had no problems keeping my depth in open water (without a blob) where as other divers from different training agencies had more problems.

As far as I'm concerened anyone who judges another on the strength of their training acency's mertits fails to understand the basic point of diving; that skills come down to whats is imparted by an instrcutor and what is mastered by the student.

[Suzanne]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] ]skills come down to whats is imparted by an instrcutor and what is mastered by the student.

Wise words. &nbsp;
I've calmed down now! &nbsp; &nbsp;

[divefunscuba]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (daz @ July 19 2003,19:22)]I do believe that regardless of agency it comes down to the intructor(s).  

Daz

Hit it in the nail Daz

[Norbert]

Personally, I've seen both crap and good PADI divers, likewise BSAC, SAA etc.

I think it comes down to two points:-

1. &nbsp;If you have a good instructor, that will makes the world of difference;

2. &nbsp;If you have the ability and inclination to dive, the agency you train with can be an irrelevance.

Nick

[Helen F H]

<font color='#000080'>BSAC cos it was cheap.

[NeilB]

Well, I started with Liverpool Uni BSAC club way back in '82. When we weren't out stealing wheels off Ford Escorts we went out diving to such glamerous spots as Holyhead Harbour and Ullswater. The diving got better as we moved onto Dotty and Treardur Bay.......but not as nice as out here.
When I started I don't think many people in the UK had heard of PADI so it wasn't an option.