My point is I don't want the "security" of having the
dive shop hold onto my driver's license. I want the
security of a dive operator making sure that the boat
leaves a dive site with the same number of divers it
left the dock with. This does require the crew to be
able to count, or better, maintain a passenger check
list.

If the shop doesn't make sure that the licenses are
returned to all of their customers, how do they tell
the difference between a lost customer and a customer
that just failed to get his/her license back? Are they
going to start an SAR operation over a customer who
drove off without getting their license? Yeah, right.

My opinion is that if the shop asks me to give them a
license or card, it CERTAINLY IS their job to give it
back. Your opinion is different, fine.

And finally: Lee if it makes you feel better to sit in
judgement over the state where Mike and I live, have
at it. Alabama's an easy target, even though it is NOT
the state whose dive operators are being discussed
here.

I don't know why you chose to insult me and Mike. This
is where we live and I think it's a good place to be.
I imagine that Mike does too. It seems I owe Strike an
apology, because I used to wonder why he has so little
tolerance for you. But now that I see you needling me
when I have done nothing except to disagree with your
opinion, I do begin to understand...

Cheers,
David H.

--- Lee Bell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> You don't give it to the boat, it's filed in the
> dive shop.  They don't
> forget or remember to return it.  It's your job to
> get it back.  The idea is
> that any left behind are divers that may not have
> returned with the boat and
> the search begins.
>
> > If that is an absolute requirement to dive with
> them, I hope they make
> that clear to
> > customers at the time of booking. I don't even
> like letting operators keep
> > c-cards, but handing over my personal ID is out of
> the question.
>
> You can't have it both ways.  You want the security
> the program offers, you
> take the risks that go with it.  If the risks are
> too high, then you give up
> the security.  I don't know if they insist on a DL.
> They asked me for one,
> I gave it to them and I recovered it after the dive
> was done.  No problem.
>
> Lee


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