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Most of the drills you just described are now in the DM training. Nowadays you can begin DM training with as little as 20 dives ... and complete it with 60. So you may have had more bottom time in your 12-week OW class than some of these DMC's have by the time they're considered dive leaders today.When I took my YMCA OW my instructor Cecelia Connelly really IMO turned out some great students. The class was long and no one slipped out of her class with a c card and very little skill. Her class was truly pass or fail and if you failed you were invited to try again in her next OW class, with out paying again of course. She had us doing fire drills chucking all of our gear in the pool diving in and gearing up, doing underwater gear exchanges, and lots of things I don't think are included in open water training much anymore. I remember her always saying your mask is a privilege not necessary for diving, and by the end of my OW class you should be comfortable operating all your gear blind. It was a good training class I got a ton out of. It was IIRC a 12 week OW class.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)