American divers get no respect

[Mike]

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A ScubaBoard Staff Message...

Okay folks, feel free to start your own threads in the Pub about who is or is not in the EU, Imperial vs. SI, window screens, coffee, contributions during various World Wars, SNL, firearms, cans vs. bottles for beer, the boiling point of water, split fins, smuggling spotted turtles, the shape of various currencies, and other completely off-topic discussions to the Pub. There were far too many to spit them off from here so they were simply deleted.

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Thank you.

 

[MMM]

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A ScubaBoard Staff Message...

With a further edit, the discussion about the pros and cons of metric versus imperial measurement system will be split off to its own thread.Here is a link here to the new thread http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...281-metric-versus-imperial-system-diving.html . Marg, SB Senior Moderator

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[KenGordon]

That is a shame. I thought it was a very informative thread. Could you not have a copy in this 'pub' place? I thought it was only the EU which had enshrined a right to be forgotten.

 

[Aquavelvet]

Thank goodness some sanity has been restored to this thread. I'm much more interested in equivalency between agencies. Props to the mods.


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[agilis]

I have no interest whatever in equivalency between agencies, few of which have any real legitimacy. The manifest ignorance, stupidity, and humo(u)rlessness afflicting so many earthlings and entities was the overarching topic under discussion, and wonderfully entertaining it was at times. Interagency differences, enthusiastic dedication to systems, and nationalistic pride are all obvious manifestations of those endlessly amusing mental defects.

It seems the resolve of Peter Pan to resist growing up must inevitably crumble under the leaden weight of sober earnest seriousness.

 

[scubafanatic]

I would have no issue with the French enforcing their local 'standards' ... IF..... they VERY clearly and broadly let it be known ...UP FRONT.....that PADI divers are unwelcome and unable to dive there so that all the 'inferior' divers/tourists don't bother wasting their time (and MONEY) bringing their valuable tourist $ into their economy!

Also, with respect to needing 'superior' training standards in French Polynesia, I call B.S.! As far as I can tell, it's still tropical, warm water, high visibility, single AL 80 style diving under benign conditions, no biggie. Seriously, how much deco diving is being done on single tanks ? Based on my reading, the only possible 'issue' with local diving might be currents, but I HIGHLY doubt the currents there are any worse than I've encountered in numerous other dive locations, and I HIGHLY doubt the CMAS training has a special chapter/element in it where you are REQUIRED to do training dives in a high-current environment in order to be CMAS certified.

 

[dfx]

As far as I can tell, it's still tropical, warm water, high visibility, single AL 80 style diving under benign conditions, no biggie.

Nah, they would be 12-litre tanks :tongue:

 

[Storker]

It seems the resolve of Peter Pan to resist growing up must inevitably crumble under the leaden weight of sober earnest seriousness.

Must it? Let's test that claim by injecting a little (American) humor relevant to the OP.

[video=youtube;G3KD0opfIUI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3KD0opfIUI[/video]

[video=youtube;z7c_OMWp21g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7c_OMWp21g[/video]

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Nah, they would be 12-litre tanks :tongue:

You think? I would've guessed 15L 200bar :tongue:

 

[Mike]

Also, with respect to needing 'superior' training standards in French Polynesia, I call B.S.! As far as I can tell, it's still tropical, warm water, high visibility, single AL 80 style diving under benign conditions, no biggie. Seriously, how much deco diving is being done on single tanks ? Based on my reading, the only possible 'issue' with local diving might be currents, but I HIGHLY doubt the currents there are any worse than I've encountered in numerous other dive locations, and I HIGHLY doubt the CMAS training has a special chapter/element in it where you are REQUIRED to do training dives in a high-current environment in order to be CMAS certified.

The only issues you are going to see in FP is with your depth. They don't recognize PADI AOW to allow you to do dives to 130 ft. They will require you to have PADI Rescue certification to qualify for the dives you would normally qualify for based on your AOW card.

 

[Storker]

They don't recognize PADI AOW to allow you to do dives to 130 ft. They will require you to have PADI Rescue certification

If they're adhering to CMAS standards, it's logical. CMAS One star ≈ PADI OW and CMAS Two star ≈ PADI Rescue. There is no CMAS certification equivalent to PADI's AOW.