vladimir
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It fascinate me how often well meaning instructors, divemaster, and divemaster candidate wants to share their own experience, so that they can learn from others and others can learn from them.
Then you get some total a$$ who comes in thinking that they are saint from high heaven who simply say - you are a what, and you did what?? You know, we all make mistake. We all did stupid things. We all learn from it all. A very experienced course director told me once how he "bolted" to the surface (as some a$$) would call it when he tried to stretch his tank to finish a lesson. Oh, yes.... why didn't you want to reach for the student's octo? No, the surface of a pool is alot closer, and less embarrassing too than reaching for another's octo. Gosh darn it... hind sight, for me, it was embarrassing. Demonstrating to the student exactly what they shouldn't do. In actuality, my mind did think, and worked correctly - the surface is 6 ft above, why not go for it?
I've heard it all here before - you are a doctor, and you did what? You are a dive instructor, and you let your son did that? You are a so, and so, and you can't even spell clotrimazole? Make fun of instructor, doctors, DM, and DM candidate? All it does is tell us how arrogant and a jerk one is on this board.
Sure, I sat down with my instructor yesterday, and discussed with him how I feel very unprepared to be a DM. He said, just spend more time with the students. I agree with him - the best way to learn to be a good instructor or DM is simply being around students. You'll see every conceivable defects in diving gear with those rental closets. As we have discussed on this board many time - a DM candidate, or a DM for that matter - means very little in the quality of a diver.
Why don't you god given saints just go back to cozy heaven, where all goes well - and all is perfect. And let us normal human beings, full of our defects - discuss our defects here we we can learn and others can too. I can't help it if my IQ is closer to a rock than yours - but GOD forbid if you ever made a mistake in your life.
That's quite a rant, Doc. At the risk of being that jerk, don't you think physicians should accept a little extra responsibility--beyond that of the laity--when posting medical opinions in a public forum? With so little to go on, I assess the education of posters partly by the grammar and spelling of their posts. And with so much quackery out there, a well-written and well-reasoned post is a great way to distinguish your opinion from the crowd.