Posted by Marc Hall on July 26, 2001 at 17:41:12:
In Reply to: your professional ethics probably forbids criticizing other agencies posted by CalAbDiver on July 26, 2001 at 16:22:58:
>MikeK is one of us, he is a PADI professional. he has been there and done that so none of us gets outraged in a professional sense when he
does it.
Mike Kane is(??)/was a PADI Divemaster.
I have to laugh. For what it takes to become
a PADI Divemaster its hard to believe you could
call it a professional anything.
How about a requirement for basic diving skills ?
How about a requirement for a minimal degree of experience in the water ?
Think what it might mean to someone who actually
dives to have someone come up to them and say
"I'm a PADI professional" and think it stands
for any sort of qualification of that diver's ability.
Mike Kane passed Tamara Kendel's Cave 1 & Cave 2
courses - from that I know he is a diver.
Marc Hall
NAUI Instructor 5017
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor 8540 (Inactive forever by choice).
(so I quess I am part of the club that can bash PADI).