As one who is working on a drysuit cert . . . .
Actually, the free market is adjusting to our instant-gratification, 3-second-attention-span current generation(s). People just don't want to sit through "all that course work" before they start diving. Ergo, the classwork is salomi-sliced into smaller classes to build on each other.
The market is also adjusting to our litigious society. Someone rents a drysuit and doesn't know better. Feet up and uncontrolled ascent later, they sued the dive op / manufacturer. Solo Diving? Sue the op that "let" you dive alone. Ergo, some 'what seem to be' outlandish certs.
For me, in [sarcasm] the highly divable south-central arizona [/sarcasm], learning how to dive a drysuit in a class makes perfect sense before I drop a couple of grand on one. With a cert card, I can rent a suit on a weekend in San Diego, and decide which one I want.
So . . . free market responds. Still . . . who's offering that split fin course, again?
Actually, the free market is adjusting to our instant-gratification, 3-second-attention-span current generation(s). People just don't want to sit through "all that course work" before they start diving. Ergo, the classwork is salomi-sliced into smaller classes to build on each other.
The market is also adjusting to our litigious society. Someone rents a drysuit and doesn't know better. Feet up and uncontrolled ascent later, they sued the dive op / manufacturer. Solo Diving? Sue the op that "let" you dive alone. Ergo, some 'what seem to be' outlandish certs.
For me, in [sarcasm] the highly divable south-central arizona [/sarcasm], learning how to dive a drysuit in a class makes perfect sense before I drop a couple of grand on one. With a cert card, I can rent a suit on a weekend in San Diego, and decide which one I want.
So . . . free market responds. Still . . . who's offering that split fin course, again?