Diving is still fun and something most can do all their lives. I've been diving 40+ years and enjoy it now as much as ever.
The nefarious sales techniques being discussed have been around for quite a while. Harder these days since informative boards, such as this,
help the newbies to become a bit informed before getting fleeced and packaged out with gear they will likely replace before long.
What is sad is that the level of instruction is now at such a general low ebb as to produce new divers who are basically unsafe at the very start.
There are, of course, still many dedicated and well meaning instructors, Thank God.
The 10-12 week course with 5+ open water dives, after weeks of pool work, was the norm not all that long ago.
Perhaps it will come full circle and quality instruction will again be the standard. That would,most likely, result in more divers staying active and creating even more divers.
The opposite of what is going on now.
The nefarious sales techniques being discussed have been around for quite a while. Harder these days since informative boards, such as this,
help the newbies to become a bit informed before getting fleeced and packaged out with gear they will likely replace before long.
What is sad is that the level of instruction is now at such a general low ebb as to produce new divers who are basically unsafe at the very start.
There are, of course, still many dedicated and well meaning instructors, Thank God.
The 10-12 week course with 5+ open water dives, after weeks of pool work, was the norm not all that long ago.
Perhaps it will come full circle and quality instruction will again be the standard. That would,most likely, result in more divers staying active and creating even more divers.
The opposite of what is going on now.