Disturbing trend in diving?

[wetb4igetinthewater]

Oh man, I tell you what, if we were casting about looking for a destination for a European vacation this summer, we would absolutely take you up on that!

if you change your mind, let me know.

I've never heard of this island before reading that post - likely a testament to low-quality geography education in junior and senior high school!

Chios is not a touristic island. Plus it is pretty far from Athens. As opposed to the Kyklades where you can take a ferry that lasts just a few hours, the boat to Chios is an overnighter (or an hour flight). Also, many of the Greek shipping magnate families are from Chios. I don't know the history of why so much of the merchant marine came from that island.

My Spanish-English speaking brain instinctively wants to pronounce it something like "Cheetos" but without the "t" - is that even close to correct?

It is hard to type the proper pronunciation. I guess the closest would be "HEE-os" where the H is much stronger than the English language. But since you mentioned Spanish, it would be more like the Spanish j.

Don't worry, the way gyros is mispronounced is of great national concern for Greece!

Anyway, I hope you will try the exercises with your wife and give me feedback on how they can be improved, as nothing I teach is set in stone. I'm always looking to do better.

 

[dmaziuk]

- Can I have hummus please?
- ??? Oh, you mean "ahmm-as"?
- No, I mean "khoo-moo-s", thank you.

 

[MB NZ]

if you change your mind, let me know.

Chios is not a touristic island. Plus it is pretty far from Athens. As opposed to the Kyklades where you can take a ferry that lasts just a few hours, the boat to Chios is an overnighter (or an hour flight). Also, many of the Greek shipping magnate families are from Chios. I don't know the history of why so much of the merchant marine came from that island.

It is hard to type the proper pronunciation. I guess the closest would be "HEE-os" where the H is much stronger than the English language. But since you mentioned Spanish, it would be more like the Spanish j.

Don't worry, the way gyros is mispronounced is of great national concern for Greece!

Anyway, I hope you will try the exercises with your wife and give me feedback on how they can be improved, as nothing I teach is set in stone. I'm always looking to do better.

Interesting posts. Spending part of my childhood in Cyprus, I never remember seeing gyros. It was always souvlaki and souvla. Souvlaki remains my favourite meal.

 

[happy-diver]

Couple things that helped.

SCUBA - just another expensive hobby​

What about having a look at this and putting something self affirming for all of us in there

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

Interesting posts. Spending part of my childhood in Cyprus, I never remember seeing gyros. It was always souvlaki and souvla. Souvlaki remains my favourite meal.

Spending my summers in Greece it was always souvlaki me pita. The first gyro I saw was in the United States. I started seeing gyros in Greece later when I traveled with friends to places more popular with foreign tourists. Since then, I see gyros more often, but still it is mostly pork souvlaki with pita, tomatoes, onions, and tzatziki.

Don't get me started about adding fries. That's just wrong.

 

[TheSnowBeast]

See it on a lot of guided dives. Especially saw it in cozumel, ow divers doing repeated dives to 90 feet and not watching NFL at all.....

 

[B N Coleman]

Pardon me, but I'm a little flabbergasted.
I haven't been diving that long, I only got certified in 1998, but we did learn tables and they hammered them into our heads. Granted it was a local course intended for local diving so they prepped us to be 100% self sufficient divers that could plan and execute a dive on our own with another OW diver without any guidance. Of course tables have been replaced by computers now, but the rest is still the same.
I'm just curious, is this part of OW training now at these locales to not need any personal data where you guys claim this is commonplace? Are they teaching "Just follow the guide"?
Or are these people just blowing off their training and not buying computers because they don't want to waste money on something they don't use anyway?

Hi - at DiveISC (currently not available in the USA), we ensure divers are trained in dive tables, their use, and the importance of staying within their personal limits. We emphasize that divers should never blindly follow a guide or divemaster, as many will push limits to impress or deliver a ‘better’ dive. Understanding depth and NDL limits is critical—because ultimately, every diver is responsible for their safety.

 

[boulderjohn]

Hi - at DiveISC (currently not available in the USA), we ensure divers are trained in dive tables, their use, and the importance of staying within their personal limits. We emphasize that divers should never blindly follow a guide or divemaster, as many will push limits to impress or deliver a ‘better’ dive. Understanding depth and NDL limits is critical—because ultimately, every diver is responsible for their safety.

What tables do you use?

Do you provide any training on using computers as well?

"We emphasize that divers should never blindly follow a guide or divemaster, as many will push limits to impress or deliver a ‘better’ dive."

What are they instructed to do in places like Cozumel where following a DM is required by law?

 

[dmaziuk]

See it on a lot of guided dives. Especially saw it in cozumel, ow divers doing repeated dives to 90 feet and not watching NFL at all.....

I don't watch NFL even when I'm not diving. Is I gone die?

 

[annoyingNudibranch]

Sadly, many yes. Ranges from all cert levels. But ive come a cross a number of vet Owcs with own gear and over 5k dives under their belts. They'd outdive many instructors i know. Its like when you have friends on a camping trip and theres one who smells the tracks and listens to cowdung