----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Emergency Procedures - where'd u learn ? do you
practice it ?


> Angelo Pardinas wrote:
>
> > but the problem is I did not learn about stuck BCD inflator in my OW
> class.
> > As I recall I only practiced OOA and Regulator free flow in my class.
BCD
> > problems and ditching weights was not practiced even once.
>
> I'm not able to explain the choices made by certification agencies.  I've
> long thought that the separation of entry level and advanced level courses
> to be a mistake.  In my experience with those courses, the combination
seems
> to form an approximation of what I view as a minimum foundation for safe,
> self reliant diving.  I'm not even close, however, to being able to define
> everything that should or should not be included.
>
Sopt Breathe think act.

Money money money money money

Money makes the world go around the world go around...

You can only charge so much for a course before the public say no.  But,
once you have them hooked, you can charge that 200 many times.  Thus there
are advanced courses and specialty course and rescue courses... all of which
were probably at one time part of the only course.

CH
.