Here we are again. Before the first 2 pages are full people tend to think that we want "stop thinking on your own".
I heard a few weekends ago: Hey, you dive the longhose and the right post because someone said so.
I responded: No WE as a team decided to dive it on the right post because there a severeal reasons for it and then explained them.
I asked him, why he used the hose stuffed on the left post at his tank:
"Because my instructor told me i can do whatever i want concerning that and he had it like this".
Students TEND to just follow what the "teacher" is doing. You also realize this whenever you hear people talking about heir instructor beeing the best in the world. My first questions: How many instructors did you dive with in total usually ends up with "2", his PADI OWSI and his XYZ-Tech-Instructor.
So this argument of blind-following is non-existent IMHO, or better "alway existent", no matter if we use standards or not.
The above instrictor had no clue, because he could not explain it i guess, so he would have better just USED a standard, where other people already did the thinking.
If we conclude that standards are BS, because it makes people "blind-followers" then the discussion is over and out at that point ?
I do not think so...
Maybe Stuart can make Phi a moderator for this Thread, and the can wipe out all the non-contributing emails, like mine and Jasons
Michael