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Karim Hamza of Hollywood Divers finished his last requirement(s) and is now a GUE Fundamentals instructor. Karim worked with me for quite some time and I know the amount of effort he put in towards this rating so congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I regularly discount media reports as a matter of course, however in the instant case the reporter was directly involved with the dive, not merely reporting on an event that he had not been involved in. He made a rather declarative statement speaking to the issue of showing his SPG and making...

You may want to allow for the possibility that Babylon is quite a popular dive site for those of us dive Cayman frequently so I didn't need an article in the NY Daily News to say that the wall drops off quite significantly. It's quite a remote site, and while it does start out at about 50'...

I was glancing through the NY Daily News and came across the following article: Caymans earn rep as snorkeler heaven Essentially it is an article about how easy and fun it is to learn scuba diving, and it follows the journey of a 13 year old and a 15 year old doing the class work on line...

I will be hosting another DIR-F class in San Diego beginning Thursday evening 12/6. SDUA will be hosting the class and as always I invite anyone that wants to learn more about the DIR ideology to join the opening night lecture free of charge. I have found over the years that by opening up the...

Despite savage fires and strong Santa Ana wind conditions, we conducted our initial classes in association with SDUA this weekend. See SDUA Home Page given the success of the class we have scheduled one additional class beginning December 6th and have tentatively scheduled another class...

I will be teaching our initial DIR-F class at SDUA in San Diego this weekend, please see SDUA Home Page If anyone in the San Diego area wants to see what the class is all about, or has unanswered questions, or just wants to de-mystify some of the misconceptions about DIR, please fee free to...

Just as an FYI, I wear contacts all the time so it isn't an issue. When I do the maskless drills with my students I request that they keep their eyes closed. While we use as many simulations as possible it isn't feasible to simulate a complete silt out, so when the mask is off I request that...

I get periodic requests from students in the Phoenix area to either run a class locally, or to join my classes in the Los Angeles area. My preference would be to coordinate any classes with a local shop, but I'd be willing to do the initial class independent of a shop to help grow the area. If...

RiverRat, I have a couple of comments to offer regarding your post: 1) As for "why" to take the class if not ready, it may be helpful to understand that it is nearly impossible for a certified diver to not be ready to take this class for purposes of learning what the class has to offer...

Not true. 2 evenings of lecture from 6 until 11. 2 days at Casino Point from 8:00am until 10:00pm on Saturday and 8:00am until approx. 4 on Sunday. The swim test is done on a different day to accomodate the use of an indoor heated pool. and we utilize the time on the Cat. Express to review...

Please allow me to take issue with the above statement. It is one thing for Tim O'Leary to agree with GUE's configuration and encourage it in NAUI-Tech training, but it is a gigantic leap of faith to suggest that the courses are "practically identical". You can't parcel out 2 components of a...

Doesn't it strike you as strange that in order to teach a decent course your instructor was forced to break the standards by in fact going "well beyond the standards"? BTW, as a side note, I know Duane and he is a great instructor so this isn't meant as a criticism of him, inasmuch as it speaks...

This is a prime example of why you can't teach some part of what is important, you must either teach everything or don't bother teaching it at all. Without proper technique "visible exits" quickly become invisible exits and sadly for some they won't realize how inadequate the training they...