bracko
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I have been lead to believe that the first OCEAN dive must be conducted by an instructor.
true?
true?
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I understood you to mean that no DM is able to conduct a DSD, which is clearly inaccurate. Also, while DSD Leader rating has long been available to DMs as an add-on certification through the DSD Leader Internship, this has not been a required part of the DM course and has had no workshop associated with it. My response was to say that DMs who have done this add-on rating are able to conduct DSDs, so as a result, it is in fact something a DM is able to. However, I didn't say that all DMs can conduct DSDs, which is where you misread what I wrote.There was already a DSD workshop in the previous DM course. I don't know why PADI include these because its not something a DM can conduct anyway.
Yes, that's correct. From p. 108 of the 2010 IM:I have been lead to believe that the first OCEAN dive must be conducted by an instructor.
true?
An instructor directly supervises the initial open water dive.
Participants can make additional open water dives directly
supervised by a certified assistant or instructor. Instructors
indirectly supervise any additional dives conducted by a
certified assistant.
One of the things that should actively discourage people from making DM's for whatever reason without being up to standards is liability. Make someone a DM and they mess up, get sued and loose they going to turn around and sue you for making them a DM and being liable for putting them in a position to mess up.
Are you suggesting that in US jurispurdence that an individual found liable of wrong doing has not successfully sued the the organisation that granted the certification because they were in fact unworthy of that certification? ever?
Has this ever happened? Well I don't think it happens once a week, but then I am an optimist.
And while you think about this not ever happening perhaps you could wonder why your takeout coffee says `Caution Hot`
cheers and thanks for 2cents, sorry no change