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Wow... they do take cert cards seriously over there! ; )
For those who don't speak french, basically they do spot checks on divers (in the water!!), ask for they name, cert level and issue fines if they're diving outside their cert. The amount of divers controlled is probably really really small. They also check boats for safety equipments and instructors certs.
Well I don't speak French and I can't view the article for some reason, but woah! I don't know if I should be thinking its cool or stupid or just plain wierd. Haha but its the French, so you never know
But some places I've dived in might benefit from this kind of neurotic bordering on OCD control.
On a large pile of smokin' A'a, the most isolated population center on the face of the earth. 2,175 miles to Alaska, 2,390 miles to California; 3,850 miles to Japan; 4,900 miles to China; 5,280 miles to the Philippines.
I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one.
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Wow... they do take cert cards seriously over there! ; )
For those who don't speak french, basically they do spot checks on divers (in the water!!), ask for they name, cert level and issue fines if they're diving outside their cert. The amount of divers controlled is probably really really small. They also check boats for safety equipments and instructors certs.
I'd love some of them in the Caribbean, but for protecting the reef, not the divers.
It would be really cool to have a cop sneak up on some moron trampling the coral, demand his C-Card and punch a hole in an "I Was Stupid" check-box right on the card.
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