On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:18:18 +0800, Bjorn Vang Jensen
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Chuck wrote:
>
>> > > It is OK to teach 8 year old kids to dive.
>> >
>> And that is one of the fundamental differences between PADI and other
>> agencies.  You have the choice and the control.
>
>Er, I don't recall signing anything with PADI obliging me to teach 8 year
>olds to dive ?
>
>Bjorn

Strike had already said this to his statement, where Chuck falsely
implied one has NO CHOICE under PADI:

DS>  SSI says the same, (as does at least one other international
DS>  certification agency).  It doesn't mean, however, that I have to
DS>  teach - if I were in teaching status - the programmes.  Neither
DS>  does it mean that I can't make my objections known to the Agencies,
DS>  or my reasons why.

What do you expect out of Chuck?  Always "Fast On the Draw" to make
DECLARATIVE statements such as what was cited (or as he said he had
already done all the work while Jeff was ill to link Scuba-SE POSTS
to Google search), and a few hundred other false declarative statements
(when compared to FACTs) in his recent history in Scuba-SE alone?

I have lost count (which I seldom do, except when the number is VERY
large <BG>) how many times I've said Chuck should pay heed to the
scuba maxim:  SBTA (Stop.  Breathe.  THINK.  Before you Act.)

And there he was, bashing PADI and PADI instruction, when failing the
heed one of the most important lessons *I*'ve learned from PADI --
SBTA!  :-))

-- Bob.



-- Bob.