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Kiwi303
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Congrats on finding an instructor who can deal with a deaf diver 
I'm deaf, 100% loss in one ear, 93% loss in the other, I wear a single hearing aid. I didn't have any trouble during training, the instructor simply waited until we were all either out of the pool or on the boat and I had peeled my hood off, dried my hair and inserted my hearing aid before starting his debrief of what went wrong, what needed more practice, what was good and dialed in and so on... no problems with the in class stuff other than I didn't get much more info than the pretty pictures off the DVD, the sound quality was atrocious.
Underwater? well, no-one can speak there, and I had more practice in figuring out what gestures mean, so I was ahead of the rest of the class there I couldn't hear tank clonkers but being deaf I already had the practice in keeping people in sight as I can't hear every hail someone makes to try and attract my attention on land anyway.
Deaf SCUBA training is no hassle if you have a decent patient instructor who doesn't insist on holding the post dive debrief floating on the surface waiting for the boat to come pick everyone up.
I'm deaf, 100% loss in one ear, 93% loss in the other, I wear a single hearing aid. I didn't have any trouble during training, the instructor simply waited until we were all either out of the pool or on the boat and I had peeled my hood off, dried my hair and inserted my hearing aid before starting his debrief of what went wrong, what needed more practice, what was good and dialed in and so on... no problems with the in class stuff other than I didn't get much more info than the pretty pictures off the DVD, the sound quality was atrocious.
Underwater? well, no-one can speak there, and I had more practice in figuring out what gestures mean, so I was ahead of the rest of the class there
I couldn't hear tank clonkers but being deaf I already had the practice in keeping people in sight as I can't hear every hail someone makes to try and attract my attention on land anyway. Deaf SCUBA training is no hassle if you have a decent patient instructor who doesn't insist on holding the post dive debrief floating on the surface waiting for the boat to come pick everyone up.
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