Shop and instructor I believe he means. Also I would contact Steve Lewis who is VP of Marketing for Raid and is a personal friend of mine. I don't know any of the other key people personally or I would tell you to contact them as well.
They would not like to have this instructor on their roles and I suspect would follow up quickly with you.
There is also the risk factor to you. While you may have the standards, there are things that a competent tech instructor will add to the course that are based on real world experience. You can't put a price on that.
It sounds like you did not get what you paid for and some of that could possibly put you in real danger.
Steve's email is
slewis@diveraid.com
Some other people to contact
CHRIS HASLAM
chris@diveraid.com
DIRECTOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | QUALITY ASSURANCE
PJ PRINSLOO
pj@diveraid.com
VP TRAINING (GLOBAL)
Thank you Jim,
You have been very helpful!
I really appreciate it.
The shop name is TEC N REC DIVERS.
The training was in the Southern part of Negros Island in the Philippines.
I have numerous reasons for not directly naming the instructor and exact location in a public forum, safety being the primary.
This is what was not done:
1.300 yd underwater swim figuring SAC
2. 150 yd inert diver tow
3. Dry stress test
4.Unresponsive diver ascent
5.SMB deployment
The additional action I think is not right is dives 2 and 3 where done as one dive. This omits much of the setup, planning, checks, etc for the second dive. I now think it was done just to save his money on renting 4 more tanks and to lessen the time he had to spend training me. I do think he added personal thoughts and ideas at times, as you suggested.
I want to give him a chance to respond before going over his head, but I am not willing to be subjected to the way he talks down to me anymore. So he is the cause of that conversation not happening.
As far as my safety. I have done all the omitted skills with my diving friends. I know the training materials inside and out. I am an experienced(345), relaxed, catious, and confident recreational diver. I am happy underwater and dive slow and deliberately. I am not prone to panic and understand reasoning through issues and thinking ahead. Activities like auto racing, caving, and riding motorcycles in my previous life have made me calm, deliberate and pragmatic. So I am not overly concerned that these issues, I've listed have made things more dangerous for me.
I think I should contact RAID about this, and I will.
Thanks again Jim!!!!