The instructor didn't tell them not to dive the Maldives. He said he wouldn't give them their requested AOW training.
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even worseThe instructor didn't tell them not to dive the Maldives. He said he wouldn't give them their requested AOW training.
Right now we have 10 dives scheduled for the Maldives.... What are people's opinion on this?
I am slightly surprised that an instructor would say that after a nav dive. My gut response would have been, why not do the Peak Performance Buoyancy dive next and see if that helped the matter. You could do the deep dive last, and a lot can happen in 4 dives...
... in my NAUI AOW class, ALL of the dives are buoyancy dives. You will also be doing other cool stuff while you're working on your buoyancy control ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
OWD, 5 dives, AOWD, then Maldives ?
Even with 350 dives, i won't be confident to dive Maldives.
The instructor is right.
If I'm reading this right, this was the same dive school that signed you off as Open Water divers? If your buoyancy was that much of a problem, they shouldn't have signed you off.
Agreed. This sounds like a lazy instructor to me, who just wants to take a group of divers on a few easy bimbles and give them a card at the end without having had to do any teaching.
Yes!! What he said! ^^^^
The OP and his wife booked the trip originally not as divers. Later they decided to become divers to make the most of their trip. That the trip is to the Maldives is neither here nor there to my discontent with how the training aspect (the true subject) has been handled by the dive op and the instructor.
You are coming from the US to make just 10 dives in the Maldives.
My opinion? :bigmonkey: I don't get that as a premise.
i'm probable able to do.350 dives to dive the Maldives? Really? What is so difficult about diving in the Maldives?
Keep the details of this instructor as he/she sounds like one of the few instructors that put safety before profit. Excellent buoyancy control is critical after deep dives where you load with more Nitrogen. Repetitive dives make it even more important. to be able to hold stops in the ocean.