underthedeepblue
Contributor
Hi
I am on an extended diving trip and may stay longer to do my DMT
The instructor who I get along well with and who will be assigned to me has said he is newly qualified as an instructor (qualified six months ago) and he has about 200 dives.
I have 60 dives and the only thing weirding me out about this is that he doesn't have that much more underwater experience than me.
Should I listen to my intuition and ask for a more experienced instructor or do you think that given he has his instructor rating he is amply qualified to take through DMT?
I like him and we have dove together a few times ie in the last couple of weeks.
He is pitching me to be his student and I am sort of OK but would prefer a person with several hundred dives as an instructor.
Unless you old timers say that his rating is enough to qualify him as a teacher.
I am a super cautious diver.
I am on an extended diving trip and may stay longer to do my DMT
The instructor who I get along well with and who will be assigned to me has said he is newly qualified as an instructor (qualified six months ago) and he has about 200 dives.
I have 60 dives and the only thing weirding me out about this is that he doesn't have that much more underwater experience than me.
Should I listen to my intuition and ask for a more experienced instructor or do you think that given he has his instructor rating he is amply qualified to take through DMT?
I like him and we have dove together a few times ie in the last couple of weeks.
He is pitching me to be his student and I am sort of OK but would prefer a person with several hundred dives as an instructor.
Unless you old timers say that his rating is enough to qualify him as a teacher.
I am a super cautious diver.