Ditching your weight would be the last resort as this will lead you into an emergency buoyant ascent, greatly increasing your chances of DCS or over expansion injuries. It becomes a last minute decision. A diver running out of air will will feel the regulator get harder to breath therefore let...
Having certified hundreds of SSI Students and doing pool sessions with almost double the amount of SSI pool students, I have always combined the CESA with an Air depletion scenario. The air depletion is a seperate skill in it self to give a feeling of being out of air. As for doing it with and...
Gear is compact enough now with light bc units and hoseless computer systems that packing it into a carry on is an easy thing to do. If you have to fly Frontier this may be one way around that system.
I can run you through an ERDI (emergency response diver program) here in Greeley at Tortuga Bay. This program beyond the recreational side of search and recovery. With this cert. you can be on a team for search and rescue or you can be an independent. You will learn opps. such as full face mask...
It is what it is. Yes I do tip an instructor that teaches me skill that could save my life. In all my steps of training from open water up to Instructor trainer and my Emergency response training through my technical training I never stop stop learning and am greatfull to instructors that can...
I agree with Oly I've only been teaching for 14 years and in that time have only recieved 1 tip. was it expected? NO but it should be accepted. Didn't your instructor teach you the 1st 2 rules of SCUBA? 1. never hold your breath 2. always tip your instructor. Plain and simple if you don't want...
The Scuba industry is NOT a tip expected industry but if people would like to tip for services, that should be there choice and because there are folks that believe tipping is a no no for certain fields leads to service that may not be what you expect. As I mentioned before there are many ways...
Tipping is tipping it doesn't have to be currency. Every trip I take or additional training I take I always contribute something, whether it's a new SMB that the dive master can use because of the minimal access to new gear or a dinner for the instructor. There are many ways of tipping besides...
As an instructor, tipping is an option to a student depending on what kind of service they receive. I bet everyone that has replied to this thread has gone out and ordered a salad and left a tip for the waiter or waitress. We don't tip our wives or husbands so why tip a waiter or waitress that...
The best dive operation I have found is Amigos Del Mar and they do pick up at any dock needed. They will also pamper you to the point of no return. I will be headed back to Ambergris on the 11 of march but will be using Aqua Dives a new for me but decided to try someone different. I have used...
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