Finally dove with DIR buddies. What a mess!

[MikeFerrara]

Hey gedunk,

I emailed Brandon and invited him to invite me. LOL. Maybe we can check it out together.

I like to watch other instructors, at least on the rare occassion there's one worrth watching.

The way we teach has been an evolution and no longer resembles how I was tought to teach in any way. We had to invent everything from scratch ourselves. No help, no advice, no model to work from and nothing to compare our results to. We're still changing it so I have to assume we're not there yet. Based on the results, which are dramatic, we're on the right track though.

 

[TCDiver1]

MikeFerrara once bubbled...


I emailed Brandon and invited him to invite me. LOL. Maybe we can check it out together.

Sounds good to me Mike. I'll never be too old to plagiarize/ steal/ copy, someones elses ideas if they work better.

Scheduling will be the problem but you never know when we might hit a open weekend. I for one would love to see how you and others get the students completely off the bottom prior to CW 3 or 4. I will be all eyes and ears.

 

[roakey]

roakey once bubbled...
A couple of months ago PADI had a picture on their TecRec (or is it RecTec?) pages about becoming an instructor. The accompanying picture showed a bunch of instructors kneeling on the bottom doing skills.

Well what do you know, we've started a thread about the above mentioned picture!

http://www.scubaboard.com/t33010/s.html

The biggest problem with recreational instructors today is that they haven't an inkling about what they don't know.

Roak

 

[MikeFerrara]

gedunk once bubbled...


Sounds good to me Mike. I'll never be too old to plagiarize/ steal/ copy, someones elses ideas if they work better.

Scheduling will be the problem but you never know when we might hit a open weekend. I for one would love to see how you and others get the students completely off the bottom prior to CW 3 or 4. I will be all eyes and ears.

Just so you don't think I forgot about it but Brandon hasn't answered my e-mail yet. When I hear from him I'll let you know.

 

[detroit diver]

MikeFerrara once bubbled...


Just so you don't think I forgot about it but Brandon hasn't answered my e-mail yet. When I hear from him I'll let you know.

FYI

Brandon is diving in Kingston Ontario until Sunday or Monday. I don't think he has computer access there.

 

[detroit diver]

roakey once bubbled...

Well what do you know, we've started a thread about the above mentioned picture!

http://www.scubaboard.com/t33010/s.html

The biggest problem with recreational instructors today is that they haven't an inkling about what they don't know.

Roak

Sorry, I couln't help myself!:wacko:

 

[Tom R]

I gave him Computer access today, but I think their kind of busy hee hee.

Tom R

 

[detroit diver]

Tom R once bubbled...
I gave him Computer access today, but I think their kind of busy hee hee.

Tom R

That sounds sadistic!

 

[PhotoTJ]

...that they know more than everyone else?

roakey once bubbled...

Well what do you know, we've started a thread about the above mentioned picture!

http://www.scubaboard.com/t33010/s.html

The biggest problem with recreational instructors today is that they haven't an inkling about what they don't know.

Roak

And the biggest problem with a lot of ScubaBoard Posters is that they haven't an inkling about what they don't know, but seem to think they know everything.

Start your own dive certification agency, and we'll see how long you can stay in business. If PADI, NAUI, SSI, and company are that bad, then your new agency should have no problem replacing them.

 

[MikeFerrara]

PhotoTJ once bubbled...
...that they know more than everyone else?



And the biggest problem with a lot of ScubaBoard Posters is that they haven't an inkling about what they don't know, but seem to think they know everything.

Start your own dive certification agency, and we'll see how long you can stay in business. If PADI, NAUI, SSI, and company are that bad, then your new agency should have no problem replacing them.

I can't speak for any one else and I don't know more than every one else. However I did start my own dive shop. I've trained several hundred divers and teach the courses of two agencies.

After all that I find that I don't have the stomach for the industry. I see too many divers in the water every week crawling along the bottom strugling and on the verge of panic. The industry uses pretty pictures of the tropics to sell certifications and fill resorts. Very few seem to be teaching diving.

Just last week, I had a class interupted by some divers who plowed into the middle of us and lay down on the platform we were working above. They were scared to death and had some kind of problem but I couldn't tell what. While my class hovered above them and I watched trying to decide if I needed to pull them out of the water, another lone diver walked up (and I mean walked). They exchanged very shaky "ok's" and walked off together. They were working hard to kick hard enough to stay up off the bottom. They were negative, head up, breathing hard and didn't have a clue. The jerky movements, wide eyes and lack of control made me very concerned for their safety. I don't believe they were having fun. You know something else? I don't think they ever saw any one in my class. They were too busy just staying alive.

They were barely surviving and one little event would finish unraveling the situation for all three. This isn't diving.

Now why don't you tell me exactly what it is that I don't know? I'm all ears.