Disturbing trend in diving?

[boulderjohn]

So, pull your own flag.

Try to follow along. Remember the no solo diving rule?

 

[NothingClever]

I haven't had anybody blink an eye when I've dived solo on the Atlantic Coast.

Now, I'm drifting in the same general direction as everybody else (probably ahead) and I proactively send up a DSMB to make it easy for the dry DM and Captain to track me so it's not like I'm headed off in an unpredictable direction or waiting until just before surfacing to mark my position. Also, on a recreational boat I don't push my luck trying to squeeze out another 10 minutes even if I have the gas to do it.

Well, OK...unless a school of HHs come cruising by....no, wait, I mean a Mola Mola...OK, maybe a couple of Mantas. I'd happily take a Catholic nun whack across the knuckles from the Captain for going over on time for those creatures.

 

[dmaziuk]

In looking at the first two levels of understanding, do those achieve the mastery learning principles?

I don't think so.

What about the third?

Yes, I definitely think so.

So basically you want students with reading comprehension skills, and you are blaming PADI for stupid people. QED.

 

[The Chairman]

Try to follow along. Remember the no solo diving rule?

John, I guess I'm just popular. I always have a buddy to dive with. I'm sure I could recruit someone on the boat if needed, but I've never needed to. I like my dives to be fun!

 

[boulderjohn]

So basically you want students with reading comprehension skills, and you are blaming PADI for stupid people. QED.

I am not sure what I read in the post, but it seems to me that he applied his personal definition of mastery to Bloom's use of the term and found it lacking. That is pretty much what everyone who is not familiar with the concept does.

 

[The Chairman]

Even if the PADI instructor's guide

It's not about the agency. A class is only as good as the instructor. We're charging the same for classes as we did 20 years ago. E-learning has helped take some of the onus off of the instructor, but we have to pay for that too. Many instructors have to cut corners just to make ends meet. Those of us who teach as a hobby, have the luxury to spend the time necessary, since we have other income streams. Dive shops and full-time instructors are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I do say exactly that. I don't want a ruined dive that I paid good money and traveled quite a distance for, and even worse accept liability for a stranger. In the US divers have been sued following an accident involving a random assigned buddy.

The crew may say you must take this person as your buddy but it can't hurt to argue the point even to the point of refusing to dive and demanding a refund.

You're not going to get sued by an instabuddy that the dive boat stuck you with.
You're not a pro under contract and getting paid. You didn't volunteer to be the IB's buddy or agree to be fully responsible for them, you're just another paying customer. If something goes wrong the operator will be sued not you. In fact you might even have a case against them since you were as much a victim as the IB.

 

[Searcaigh]

Do any of you log your dives?

100% logged since 1991

In thew late 1990s I tried doing stuff with Suunto software as I then had a computer, but these files are on a hard drive in an old computer, but I still have the written logs of these dives.

Although I download my dives from a Shearwater computer, I still log on paper, which astounds many other divers I meet on boats and on my travels.

 

[boulderjohn]

In the US divers have been sued following an accident involving a random assigned buddy.

I don't believe this has ever happened.

 

[The Chairman]

I still log on paper,

I knew you were a luddite!