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Nuh Huh. My agency has kung fu grip and can beat your puny agency.My agency can beat up your agency any day of the week.
I hope you reported this.I've seen PADI instructors teaching self-reliant courses more than once with spare airs,
Out of interest. If someone was to take the solo diving course. What would your preference be for redundant air source? Pony cylinder, twin cylinders with isolation or independent doubles.I am assuming you have never read the SDI standards for Solo, which say,
"5. Equipment for Solo Diving
a. Redundant air sources: pony cylinder, twin cylinders with isolation, independent doubles, SpareAir™"
Of course it is not enough air, which is why I never allowed it when teaching SDI Solo.
Go find something else to be pissy about.
Wow! What part of an N of 1 did you not understand?Wow! You must have seen one Hell of a lot of courses being taught by both SDI and PADI instructors all ovrr the world to make generalizations like that. It is hard to imagine how extensive your experience must be! How many such courses do you think you have seen? 30,000? 40,000? How long did it take you to observe all of those?
I wasn't an instructor and didn't know it was a violation when I did... I would today, though after doing a QM complaint on an instructor who taught for a year and a quarter without renewing, and using other instructors #'s to certify students; and seeing that PADI took no action against him, I'm not exactly all tingly about PADI's willingness to do anything about standards violations.I hope you reported this.
It is a solo course, there should be no witnesses!I hope you reported this.
n is supposed to be lower case.Wow! What part of an N of 1 did you not understand?
? A SAC of 20 in what units? I don't see how one gets more than a few breaths at most.With a sac of 20 a 1l spare air will give you around 3 minutes of air at 20m, that's more than enough time to ascend