Posted by Mario on October 14, 2002 at 13:40:20:
In Reply to: Help! Need some feedback for my research paper! posted by Desi Torres on October 14, 2002 at 11:37:55:
They can be expected to remember for the same reason one could remember how to drive a car if they didn't drive one in a year. One doesn't expect people to take a driver's ed class every year.
Scuba diving is a dangerous activity if one is not careful. As is driving a car. However it isn't exactly rocket science. If someone took a class, never went diving after the class (or did very little diving) and then ten years later wants to start again, then yeah, a refresher course should be a given.
I dove like a fish for about 5 years straight, then didn't do one single dive for a little over two years while in college. Then I started right back up where I left off and never missed a beat.
If anyone makes it sounds more complicated than it actually is, they are probably just a bunch of tubby old couch potatoes that what to keep fooling themselves into thinking they are Navy Seals or something. Now, tech diving...that's a different story.