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I'd say that 41.95 for nitrox info is a rip, you can damn near buy a NOAA manual for that and get all you need to know about nitrox and everything else there is to know about diving in one cover.That's a BIG ripoff. The PADI course I took costs $130.00. The books and tables costs 41.95 from leisure pro the same ones I have. I was informed probably no dives. So I figure $60.00 MAX. LP is selling the books and tables at a profit for $42.00 which means they got them for less. So what are they worth direct from PADI, $20.00 maybe? Another $30.00-$40.00 per for c-card processing, web site costs,etc. I'd say that's fair. Do they wear masks when they charge $205?
Flying and NItrox are like heart surgery and splinter removal no comparision. A 100+ dollar Nitrox course is a rip off pure and simple.
Nitrox-21 can kill you just like Nitrox-32, just the same way(s), just a little deeper.$100 dollars seems like a small price to pay to learn how to handle a gas that could kill you if misused. Just my opinion.
In '68? We were using horsecollar BCs, no nitrox, but pure O2 was in use, no Octo, using SPGs, yes to non-silting kicks. This meant that the physical skills were a bit harder to master and the syllabus was a bit thicker.AD wrote
That is such B.S. I bet you also walked to school in three feet of snow uphill both ways!
People are taught how to dive today also AND people are taught about diving. I know I wasn't taught anything about BCDs, about Nitrox, about Octos or bungied backups, non-silting kicks or any number of things your basic O.W. student is taught today.
People forget that, especially the difference between every-day expenses and diving gear. I wrote in a story a few years back:FWIW in 1968 $125, in 2012 that equals $832.12
"I noticed that my hands were really cold. Lloyd and Ken told me that what I needed to do now was get rid of those effete five finger ScubaPro dress gloves and get a pair of truly manly three finger mitts. We drove into town to fill our tanks at the Aquarius Dive Shop and I sacrificed next week's food money to buy a pair."
The mitts were $30.00 back then, that's almost $200 today!