Posted by Eric Poulas on October 19, 2000 at 17:03:57:
In Reply to: Re: Poor training or lack of experience posted by Frank, AADIVER, Farmer on October 19, 2000 at 15:59:27:
The site you told me to visit does well and good speaking about your exploring, diving, drinking and acting to date. The original questions I asked still are not answered. Here they are again;
Please outline it in terms readily understood and hopefully accepted by others why your way of diving is worth being learned. The question has been asked before and I for one would like to know.
Hearing you say your way is better needs to be bolstered by some facts and figures, not just a line like I have been doing it since whatzizname was in diapers and haven't been killed or injured yet.
I have read from you in the past you like to hang your weights on the side of your boat while getting in and out of the water, it this what you will mentor someone else into doing too?. What is wrong
with being fit enough to wear them in and wear them out?
You also wrote somewhere that you would not escort anyone underwater unless they paid you under your rules of Divemastering for someone other than the wreck club you belong to. I assume from reading
your site you are a PADI Divemaster. Are your association and insurance fees paid up in full?
Also you said that you dive independently, which according to a dictionary equates to diving solo. It seems to me that if you are diving independent or solo at
whatever older age you sound to be, you are at risk for a problem underwater. Is this true?
You brought up the idea about you mentoring divers. I wish to know why someone should consider you a mentor?