I know the eight hundred pound gorilla your talking about Greg. It’s unfortunate that on their face they promote themselves as an advocate for the sport of scuba diving and in fact they have done many wonderful things for the sport. Under that facade lurks a organization that is highly protectlive of their retail affilates and steers the insurance industry that support the sport by it’s shear weight of numbers. Try getting group insurance for a dive training organization that doesn’t include retail equipment sales. With the retail sales you are not considered a dive center and without that rating no group insurance policy by either of the 2 major scuba insurance companies. After trying to deal with them it seems they exist to further only the retail scuba industry regardless of the small scuba business’ they roadblock or step on along the way. In fact during my conversation with one of it’s officials I was told flatly that they are a retail association and not what their acronym states.