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My talk with PADI about the "Mystery student" involved using PADI Staff Instructors not just divers/students. ""Maybe there should just be occasional spot-auditing, where an agency rep openly attends a class every now and then to see the format/conditions/etc."" If an Inst. knew that someone...

I never paid to go diving other than taking my classes. Most of the time I was paid to go diving.

"Maybe your expactations are just to low. The stated objective of the course is to leave you qualified to independantly plan and conduct opwn water dives." You make alot of since alot of the time Mike but sometimes I think you forget the part about "to your level of training and experience"...

My favorite is "more people are killed by Coke machines falling on them" than are bitten by sharks worldwide (yes that is bitten not killed).

Not just that but back in the day people would fill the plug that holds the disk in place with lead to get "overfills".

Yes. Easier to have happen coming up in shallower depths. Never hold your breath. When I was a little diver long ago I was standing in a 10ft pool took a breath, held it and popped my co2 and rode it up and could feel my lungs expanding.

From what I read into your post the SSI Stress&Rescue/ PADI Rescue Diver is not really what you are looking for. It sounds like you are looking more for a AOW type class, that is depending on what type of skills you are looking to improve? If it not so much skill drills you are looking for...

Normally seeing water in a gauge is from one of 3 things. If the face of the gauge has loosend or the oring sealing the face is damaged. The housing is cracked near where the fitting that attaches the gauge to the hose or that fitting has come loose. I have seen only a couple of gauges that...

Dr. Bill why do you choose to still use the Mk10? I understand why with the G250!!!

You can check out a kayaking shop too we sell neo socks. Look at nrsweb.com

If you want to see "arrogant" in a sport/recreation tell a Class 5 whitewater kayaker you just ran a hard class 2 river. Or Tell that guy on the beach with his tiny little surf board your learning to surf. Never met a bunch of more look down their nose group of people in my life next to surfers.

"As was mentioned in a prior post, PADI has significant marketing muscle as opposed to some of the other agencies. Should not they use that muscle to promote more ecologically sound diving practices?" This sounds like PADI divers are killing the reef and it makes me laugh. Have you seen what...

The Padi 5 Star IDC Center that I ran wasn't forced to only sell PADI materials. We also stocked and sold the NOAA manual and several other books from different vendors that were aimed to education. We just couldnt sell training books from NAUI,SSI,NASDS and so on. I found for some people...

So then it is a spacial (sp) awareness thing then than more of a visual thing. I have been very lucky wiht this as I have never really had much of a problem with this, could be all the "braille" dives I did back in the ponds of Missouri as a guppy.

What PADI doesnt want an Inst. doing is going beyond scope and content (read that teaching planned deco dives when teaching tables to OW students). That is a reference to staying in standards. But you can add material to your teaching that applys to the given lesson and course. I had this...

So if everyone wears a wrist mount gauge then why all the "with out visual reference"? Looking at a gauge reading 65ft is the same as looking at a fan coral or knot in a rope at 65ft or 15ft. Is it not? Alot of my students never put the gauge/visual reference together when doing floating...

You can see some pretty cool stuff out there in the Blue Water. One of my favorite dives was in 60ft off of Bimini, I took a compass heading on the wall turned around and started swimmin for about 5min. I was just deep enough to barely see the surface but no bottom or sides when along came a...

get a wrist mount depth gauge or computer and wear it on the inside of your wrist (makes it easier to look at) even if you use a computer. I wear my computer on my wrist and have a console mount compass with a depth gauge that is on the same side. It took me awhile to get use to a console mount.

Air sharing Should be #1 on that list. Its where most people I have worked with have problems. By doing air sharing drills from say 40 to 20 feet,in a wetsuit, you will be working on those midwater bouyancy skills too, while under duress. When you feel comforatable doing this add in mask...

Just opening up your 1st stage can cause more problems that you started with. Depending on the seating surfaces some of them have a sharp "knife" edge that forms a groove in the seating surface and there is no way you can replace the seat to match that groove. So now you have creeping IP...