FESTISUB 2015: IT'S FOR VERY SOON

@ Marie-Aline: What a pleasure to read your post! there will still be talk in the cottages (see the post from Franck Tellosa and the answers)!

That said, most of the hot-water dives are Padi structures and the GO-Padi service on board, change group every week and I think he completely mocks our advice.

Even arguing as you did,

- at best, I got the sympathetic demeanor of the occasion, a polite listening, and the response that goes with " yes, but you understand, if there is a problem, it will spoil everyone's holidays because we will have to return ", what is true.

- And at worst, the threat of depriving everyone by anchoring on sites whose bottom will be 20 meters, pointed out at the faulty one, with the conclusion, "Be ok if you don't want to be the person everyone hates - be quiet if you don't want to be the person everyone hates; first half hour on board, welcome speech!

At the question " Do you have any questions "," Yes ! Does the Padi course have a totalitarian diving specificity ?! »Each having marked his territory, during the stay we exchanged a little nod to say hello and we were carefully avoided. Even if there is safety, serenity (buzzword!) And the well-being of everyone during the stay, I found this presentation, to say the least, out of place and a great lack of tact. . And during the same stay, seeing an advance Padi giving air to a freediver at 5 meters, I concluded that they preferred pulmonary overpressure to decompression sickness!

I don't mind being bothered with diving without decoration, but I expect the DP - since he was present - that he intervenes and that he explains the why and how, to the diver who gave air, which was not the case. Apart from the currency side, what do they learn?

The more I meet Padi instructors, the more I find them painful and formatted, their clients-divers being products to manage (I am schematizing). The little that I saw: I do not trust them. While cruising, I ask where the oxy is, I want to know how the suitcase opens, what's in it, and I keep the aspirin and water handy.

The exception justifies the rule, I know some excellent, educators, intelligent, instinctive, with whom I got on well and who showed us their favorite site, Michel in Moorea, Gabriel in Filitheyo - Maldives, Didier in Playa del Carmen and Guido in Mabul / pompom. And as luck would have it, some have MF1 or BEES1 training. Surprising no?