Why? I just talked about this on Saturday at the show I was at. One instructor, two people on a discover in open ocean. It's not safe. Yet some still think that because standards allow it, it's ok to do. Only if you change the standard can you seem to force operations into changing the ratios for these. Now you have one dead, two others traumatized by the experience, and an instructor who has to try and live with the part he played in it. Open water discovers are bullcrap. They should not be done in any location where you can have any chance of going beyond 15 feet. If that. It seems though that there is an acceptable number of deaths and injuries if you read the opinions of some when it comes to revising ratios and limits. Otherwise they would not be so resistant to change them.
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