kjack_1
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I think you kinda Hit the nail on the head with scuba certs, The agencies provide an outline but it is up to the instructor to teaching them propperly. Maby if they would send out a survey when they mail the card to you to get an idea of instructors performance stuff would get taught to appropriate guidelines like calculating repetitive dives. I do think that PADI is kinda minimal on their outline though, dont know about other courses and they push trying to get training without giving students a little understanding to find the direction they want to go, which is why i would like to see an OW course that is focused on a touch of AOW, Rescue, and present the facts of Nitrox (one of my friends swears that if he gets nitrox he will have a longer bottom time (like he has a bigger tank) when he sucks air like crazy and i keep talking him out of it so he can get control on his breathing first then go nitrox)
New divers just don't know if they've been taught correctly/appropriately or not. I've got a couple new divers where I work. They believe they can go just about anywhere. What we've been taught in classes/courses is taken as gospel - and is put forth as such.
Where did your friend get the notion that diving nitrox is *the* way to go? Prolly someone told him that and now it's true for him.