...the pool training we did, along with taking and passing various tests during the cross over was top notch! There’s nothing wrong with the ciriculum, the over emphasis on gear sales and the tatics they employ is where they lost me as an instructor. So please don’t make assumptions that the training is bad, because it is not! A dive shop makes its money on gear sales, the classes and dive travel barely break even, so anything a shop can do to bolster gear sales is what a shop owner is looking for! Without gear sales there are no dive shops! SSI just takes it too far in my opinion!