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From ScubaDivaLaura:
Collecting information on Scuba Diving for research purposes. The only time Scuba is pleasant for me is actually under the water. Many things happen in and around the diving industry and community that I do not like or care for.
Would you be willing to take the time to answer two questions?
1. What is it that bugs you about the diving community?
2.What bugs you about walking into a scuba diving shop?
3. Is there any aspect of scuba diving that really bugs you or you hate?
Many of you commented on this and I appreciate all of your comments, thank you.
I know there are more than 15 people on this board. Many people don’t get past the first few forum topics due to distraction or disinterest. Please let me hear from the rest of you the answers to the above questions. There is NO wrong or right answer just your answer.I need to hear from the rest of you.
Since many of you know I never answered my own questions so let me tell you my pet peeves about the industry.
I hate, loath and despise the fact that ANY Scuba agency thinks they are the best. I find that attitude arrogant, haughty, absolutely NON-FACTUAL and distasteful. The one-up-manship mentality behind that stupid attitude is childish and competitive. Why cant we all go diving and have a good time?
In addition, I hate the competitors that have never taken a class with me, nor have even spoken to me personally but have critisms about how I operate my diving business. They bad mouth me to potential clients because they have no other selling power to gain clients other than dogging the competition.
Lastly, I find it distastful for anybody to vomit on me their list of ALL the places they have ever done diving, how many dives they have under their belt and unsolisited voluteering of information as if they were an instructor. I guess there are KNOW-it-ALLS in every industry but it seems as if all the assholes are in this one.
Thank you kindly for your time and attention to answering these questions.
1. Know it all’s. It seems like there is one on every trip. Most have only been diving for a few years but go out of their way to give advice (usually wrong) or correct another diver (often one with much more experience than themselves). Most of them come off as loud mouth louts that the other divers make jokes about over a beer after the dive.
2. The dive shops I frequent are top notch and professional. I have never had a bad experience, been over charged or been hard sold in my LDS here and in Virginia. I do have a problem with the Dive Agencies nickle and dimeing me to death for every class I take. I have been tempted to sell my instructions books and videos on eBay just to provide some of these agencies with a little competition.
3. I have three pet peeves about diving in general: A. Macho divers - people who try to shame other divers into making dives they are not comfortable with. They also seem to be the same people who don’t carry essential safety equipment apparantly because they don’t think anything bad will ever happen to them. I see it all the time. It is often a disaster waiting to happen; B. Divers who take up underwater photography before they really know how to dive. They are a danger to the environment, other divers and themselves; C. Divers who don’t grasp the concept of dive buddy - see the comment on photgraphers above. I feel like a babysitter whenever I have an inexperienced photgrapher as a dive buddy.
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