Instructors who post on SB are in no way representative of the whole of the scuba instructors population, in both good ways and bad. Couple of illustrations (and trying to stay away from sensitive or pejorative stuff):
- The "consensus" view on SB tends to be in favour of BP/W. Most instructors I know in real life express a strong preference for jacket style BCDs.
- Many if not most instructors on SB are also tec trained. But in real life a tiny minority of instructors are tec trained.
- Most SB instructors would toughen up standards for courses. Most instructors I know in real life are more concerned with churning them over quickly to make a buck.
- Most instructors I know in real life do it for a couple of years and then move on with their lives. For most people on SB it is a lifetime passion.
- DIR community is significantly bigger and more active on SB than in the diving population as a whole.
- Lot more cold water divers on SB than in the population as a whole.