I have the same conversation with people pretty frequently.
"I'd like to come down to do Cavern, Intro, and Full."
And then I wind up writing a zillion word email on why that's a terrible idea.
Usually people are receptive. I like to think that they're asking a cave diving instructor about cave diving because they want to know about cave diving. And then, having been given advice, they think, "Wow, I've just learned something about cave diving from a cave diving instructor."
Sometimes, however, people believe they know about the thing they're trying to learn better than the instructor of said thing already. And get upset about the answer.
Then they look for a different instructor who will give them the answer they want. Which always breaks my heart a little bit. But, by then, I'm out of the equation and can go back about trying to teach people things properly to the best of my ability.
Anyway... because I'm asked the same thing so frequently I wrote a thing. Call it a blanket response. Now I can just tell people who ask...
Go read THIS blog post.
And they can make of it what they will.
"I'd like to come down to do Cavern, Intro, and Full."
And then I wind up writing a zillion word email on why that's a terrible idea.
Usually people are receptive. I like to think that they're asking a cave diving instructor about cave diving because they want to know about cave diving. And then, having been given advice, they think, "Wow, I've just learned something about cave diving from a cave diving instructor."
Sometimes, however, people believe they know about the thing they're trying to learn better than the instructor of said thing already. And get upset about the answer.
Then they look for a different instructor who will give them the answer they want. Which always breaks my heart a little bit. But, by then, I'm out of the equation and can go back about trying to teach people things properly to the best of my ability.
Anyway... because I'm asked the same thing so frequently I wrote a thing. Call it a blanket response. Now I can just tell people who ask...
Go read THIS blog post.
And they can make of it what they will.