09 Feb 97 21:26, Joe Dzurinda wrote to Steve Elliot:
 JD> Working as a Divemaster for PADI I can compare my NASDS open-water 
course.
 JD> I think the NASDS course was superior and many of the things I did I had
 JD> to do over in PADI Advanced.  I have to admit that I'm glad I started 
ut
 JD> as NASDS because I was not a swimmer.  When I started I could only
 JD> dog-paddle and the swimming part would have killed me.  It was with a 
ot
 JD> of reluctance that I had to learn to swim to become a Divemaster, it was
 JD> also my last requirement to be finished.
I don't want to start a PADI vs NASDS war here, but how can you call a course 
superior when it graduates a nonswimmer?  Until you learned how to swim, you 
were an accident waiting to happen, just as any nonswimmer near the water is 
a danger to themselves.
I don't know how great the course I taught was compared to all the others, 
but I believe it was safe.  Nonswimmers never made it past the first night 
(and a complete refund).
Jay
PADI M-9033
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