Pity the Poor PADI Professional

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When you get certified by a training agency, you do not become part of that agency. You simply have met certain of its training standards. The divemaster and the instructor who taught you, and, indeed, the instructor-trainer who taught both of them, are designated "members" of the training organization, although Darcy Kieran would dispute that and says that those who train divers are merely customers of PADI.

Kieran is a long-time PADI Instructor, Course Director, and the author of Dive Industry Surveys & Market Studies. He wrote to Undercurrent complaining about the fees instructors must now pay PADI annually to keep their teaching status....

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