Hi guys,
sorry, have been swamped with other projects and had no time to come back to this with a reply.
I believe there is space for improvements, but probably it is not exactly where I was hoping for it to be (in the booking section).
You all raised points that either confirmed the doubts I already had or added extra points worth of consideration.
@sigxbill
1. Up to the user to disclose it. The booking system would collect anyway the cert details (and an automated system could be put in place to sort the level out automatically). Helpful or not in terms of qualifying a diver experience, it is still a basic bit of info worth collecting.
2. This is one of the main problem that I will have to deal with, as surfaced in this thread.
3. How much do you think that this point is related to point #2? What are, in your opinion, the reasons for the decline despite proving professional level certs?
4. That is another point I initially wasn't evaluating. Logistic support only vs full dive guidance.
5. Would be great if you could let me know more about this point. If there is more to it, then I am probably working on the wrong side of the project.
@dmaziuk
Avoiding useless approaches is the motivation behind starting this thread and asking to people with first-hand experience!
Note that my desire wasn't directly to avoid lawsuits. If there is a lawsuit, it means that something went wrong in the process. Would be better to fix that possible problem ahead if possible.
My goal would be to make the entire process easier for both sides (see point #3 above), taking out as much uncertainty as possible from it. Of course I have to tune my hopeful expectations to the real world.
@Edward3c
Valid concern, but I believe that equivalence tables could be drawn in a more or less granular way (more or less the same you did in your post).
Keeping certs at the center of the picture, I am way more concerned about certs bought or anyway not earned as pointed in previous posts.
For this reason probably certs would have a marginal weight in such a process.