runsongas
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It’s not our responsibility (people who have already spent thousands) to keep feeding dive shops so they can stay in business. It’s the dive shops (and cert agencies) responsibility to find new ways to get new divers into the loop to keep them fed.
We’ve done our job already and made our contribution.
except this thread is full of complaints about how the dive industry has devalued training standards in order to keep those new divers coming. you can't have it both ways expecting the industry to keep those numbers up every year and then complain about how they go about doing so.
you either have to accept open water scuba has to be kept cheap and easy to be accessible to the masses or it becomes more exclusive and expensive and the dive industry will need to contract as the number of divers decreases.