Modularized Training vs all-at-once
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For a given destination website show exciting sites, divers who visit expect to see those sites. Sometimes the expectations will not line up with the abilities of the divers and the dive ops will need to manage stuff. Even brand new divers come with expectations. This is hard to fix and it is reasonable for the dive dive ops to treat the customers appropriately, unfortunately that extends too far quite often.
Really there are different categories of diving and if you venture out of your comfort zone you need to be aware not to get too pissy with some poor sod who has to deal with thousands of under prepared holiday divers.
Authentic experiences are available and to be valued, just not commonly in the places frequented by the sorts of people who expect someone else to rinse their kit.
If you do want to dive somewhere warm etc then personal recommendations and/or a good specialist travel agent can help. A few years back I did a trip to Indonesia which might had potential to be less fun due to these sorts of issues. However, we mostly ended up with capable divers being shown about by guides who were generally alright. If that sounds like only a partial success then yes, compared to Scottish diving where the only limits are your own, it is not so clever.
Really there are different categories of diving and if you venture out of your comfort zone you need to be aware not to get too pissy with some poor sod who has to deal with thousands of under prepared holiday divers.
Authentic experiences are available and to be valued, just not commonly in the places frequented by the sorts of people who expect someone else to rinse their kit.
If you do want to dive somewhere warm etc then personal recommendations and/or a good specialist travel agent can help. A few years back I did a trip to Indonesia which might had potential to be less fun due to these sorts of issues. However, we mostly ended up with capable divers being shown about by guides who were generally alright. If that sounds like only a partial success then yes, compared to Scottish diving where the only limits are your own, it is not so clever.
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