pauldw
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Now, see, this is why I don’t like going to the doctor. I worry that the doctor might not be any more competent then a lawyer.
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Now, see, this is why I don’t like going to the doctor. I worry that the doctor might not be any more competent then a lawyer.
Please show why the court decisions I've quoted stating the exact opposite are wrong.Actual negligence is not protected but any form you sign.
If an instructor has not followed procedure and caused injury, he is negligent. The waiver is non-binding.A waiver does not simply ask you to comply with people’s directions. It has nothing to do with that. A waiver exists to protect people who screw up and hurt you, from being sued for it. It’s not an “agreement to learn,” it’s a “waiver of liability.” There would be no need for a waiver if people were willing to take responsibility for what they do to you. That said, it probably also protects businesses from overly litigious people who only think they’re victims.
If an instructor has not followed procedure and caused injury, he is negligent. The waiver is non-binding.
I believe so. Dive operators have been fined phenomenal amounts here. Don't get the impression Australian instructors are any better than the US operators. I completed my OW with an Instructor who enjoys the shortcut to success method. Lucky for me and not the others she trained, I had 4 try dives under my belt years earlier, and skin diving experience.Is that the law in Australia?
To shift the topic slightly, my impression of diving in Australia was that dive ops are insanely safety-conscious. As a newly certified diver, the boat dropped me in 6m of water over a bit of reef that still stands out in my mind today as some of the nicest I have seen. In the US I have seen boats take new divers to surprisingly deep sites. “You’ll do fine!” they say.