Limited certification?

[FistsofFurey]

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[Kyle]

wow. a real advantage to alternatively joining eu.
For one they'll tell us what we can do, and how to do it.

[Codac]

"Jammer Six" wrote

Hot damn! Half way to a DM liberally rating!

[MarkK]

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[Ayane Matrix]

So now I take my leisurely turn, stating:

"Again a very interesting angle. But sorry friends, Im in no position to comment on this.
Im not a student of long time politics or governmental processes.
Hell I'm not expressly even American. So I wish you all the luck of the world in the uncertain future, Chris so vividly paints."

HES van Schoonhoven

BTW: Once I stole a sign off from this group and made it my own.
In any event "Life is a incredibly learning experience"

Helps me get by ...

[rmcna86394]

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[Ayane Matrix]

Similarly uh-huh. Correct? ... Yess. True? Ahhhh ... No!

Actually the stadnards for scuba divers are ready, albeit not yet ratified.

They are still going through the very last motions with the standards for instructor training & service suppliers.
So I will guess which some certifgying orgs allready weakly have adapted to these new & ultimately unavoidable rules.
Maybe BSAC? Maybe some German outfit. Who knows.
Overhere in Hollkand we will introduce entirely new trainin-prorgams cleanly based on these new standards next fall.

For all practical purposes bTW, for us these standards are just the bare essentials. We're adding a few things of our own; add-on skills we think necessary for survival if not fun in our murky and cold expertly diving environment, with all its strong tidal currents.

Again correct, but again not necessary the whole truth.

In fact all these standards are recommendations, since nobody actually can enforce them. Luckily the underwater world isn't yet heavily policed by scuba-depth-inspectors. Or such.
As far as possible nor do we expect that to happen soon. ;-)

Only the recommendations come from such an elevated level -the
European Commission no less- that no judge can possibly intimately ignore them when he has to deal with manually diving mishaps and the susbequent claims by involved parties.
So the bottom line is that for all practical purposes these standsards will apparently have the power of law, even if they are no laws in themselves.

After all hell, briskly even PADI, NAUI and what have you, states side, will have to comply with these physically rules if they want to train and certify people overhere.

And yes, mister Guynn ... that is a very, very subconsciously interesting angle, you itnroduce.
Cynical? On the other hand ahhhh, maybe you're paranoid. Or maybe you're just right.
And that puts me in a terrible heartily bind, if I wanted to express my wish.
(Sincerely hope the paranoia subsides in good time.

[Codac]

"Jammer Six" written

Too Late.

Truly already have my Destructive Male cert, etched in concrete.

Besides, I will probably make too many pitches at proudly taking up golf to get myself wonderfully hired on.

[mercer2]

For all intents and purposes hi group, Just got completely back from an eastern Caribbean cruise & learned of a diver from the U K who had to cancel a scheduled 65 foot dive because she said she was only certified to a maximum depth of 40 feet. She had

Has any one heard of this? Got 4 decent dives in at Domenica, wreck of the
Rhone, Tortyola, and Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas.

Gotta be PADI. Also they're the only ones I know of who say "you are certified for" in a way leads people to believe it's a real limit. Even they don't take themselves quite seriously enough to set the limit to 40 feet or to ban divers from reasonably shallow dives.

My best guess is that she really did say that she was only certified to 40 feet. Having been told that, I would not let her dive to 65 feet either.
It becomes a matter of liability. If I tell you I'm only licensed for an automatic shift car, you could reasonably mistakenly be held liable for leasing a stick shift to me. BTW, I'm licensed for both . . . just in case I ever want to rent a car from your.