Quote: (Originally Posted by
MarcLaukien)
If somebody fakes certification cards, and shows complete incompetence, and then an accident happens, do you really think that any court in the world would overrule the waiver he had to sign? Do we perhaps soon need cert cards with biometric data and a central registry with fingerprints before somebody is allowed to dive?
Also, isn't there a danger that more people will start faking their certs and lie about their logged hours, because resorts don't accept the certs they already have? For example, I could probably have sneaked into Cobalt by simply making up a false dive log for my HH CCR, thereby circumventing the idiotic rule that my logged hours reset to zero after switching from the Optima to the HH.
You missed my point Mark. The point not about faking c-cards, it was to illustrate the crazy people in the world are not just hanging on inner city streets babbling to themselves. Some of them lurk on dive boats in doubles and CCR's too.
There are people diving with completely valid c-cards for all sorts of things they should not be diving. I know a CCR instructor who has no business instructing others, (no not you Howard or Mark
) much less DIVING a CCR.
Quote: (Originally Posted by
MarcLaukien)
The issues are:
- Your prior logged hours don't count after switching from one rebreather to a similar one.
- A prior Normoxic Trimix OC certification doesn't count. I would have to do a complete Normoxic Trimix CCR course. (But only after accumulating 50 hours on the new unit first.)
Getting back to the issues - it could be their insurance mandates this. Or they threw a dart at some numbers on the wall, and 50 is what they hit. Or it could be, that some divers still look like ass in the water after 50 hours on their unit(s.) It sucks for a competent, experienced diver.
Quiescence, in the Key's wouldn't let me dive the Spiegel with a reel and a light, since they assumed I would penetrate the wreck. I didn't like that. So I don't give them my business anymore.