Free-flowing inflator

[KevinNM]

On a different note; I'm moving to San Diego, can anyone recommend a good instructor out there?
I would like to to do a deep course, a course in perfect buoyancy control and when I'm ready Advanced Nitrox and DECO.

I have never worked with Marc, but I have worked with 4 other GUE instructors and they are all damn good at teaching buoyancy and trim. So get in touch with him and see if you can work something out.
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i have taken a class with Steve Millington in LA and while he failed me (I simply could not perform a critical skill at all) I still learned a lot and I would recommend him too if you want to go there. The other LA based instructor is highly regarded by other instructors. Both Steve and Karim are tech diving instructors.

 

[Kevrumbo]

I have never worked with Marc, but I have worked with 4 other GUE instructors and they are all damn good at teaching buoyancy and trim. So get in touch with him and see if you can work something out.
GUE Instructor résumé | Global Underwater Explorers

i have taken a class with Steve Millington in LA and while he failed me (I simply could not perform a critical skill at all) I still learned a lot and I would recommend him too if you want to go there. The other LA based instructor is highly regarded by other instructors. Both Steve and Karim are tech diving instructors.

Steve was was my GUE Fundamentals classmate before becoming an instructor; Marc sold me his X-scooter & was my initial DPV Instructor nearly ten years ago; and I've known Karim at Hollywood Divers for at at least twelve years --they are all excellent & fun mentors!

I would also recommend Andrew Georgitsis at UTD right there in San Diego as well:
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Lastly, there was one infamous "controlled" drill many years ago that Andrew Georgitsis did as a former GUE Instructor: to simulate a runaway wing inflation on double backmount tanks, he would simply hold down your inflator button and you would have to quickly shut down your right post tank valve, switch regs then dump the excess air from the wing as best as you can. This drill was conducted shallow @3 to 4meters and the student would always break the surface because of the shallow depth --but the motivation was to learn the technique & perform it expeditiously should you ever have to do it for real at operational depth (i.e. Ideally arrest and control the runaway ascent before violating any prescribed mandatory decompression stops).

 

[decompression]

Second for Andrew Georgitsis, one of the most amazing instructors I've seen.


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[Divetech99]

Steve was was my GUE Fundamentals classmate before becoming an instructor; Marc sold me his X-scooter & was my initial DPV Instructor nearly ten years ago; and I've known Karim at Hollywood Divers for at at least twelve years --they are all excellent & fun mentors!

I would also recommend Andrew Georgitsis at UTD right there in San Diego as well:
Home · UTD Scuba Diving

Lastly, there was one infamous "controlled" drill many years ago that Andrew Georgitsis did as a former GUE Instructor: to simulate a runaway wing inflation on double backmount tanks, he would simply hold down your inflator button and you would have to quickly shut down your right post tank valve, switch regs then dump the excess air from the wing as best as you can. This drill was conducted shallow @3 to 4meters and he student would always break the surface because of the shallow depth --but the motivation was to learn the technique & perform it expeditiously should you ever have to do it for real at operational depth (i.e. Ideally arrest and control the runaway ascent before violating any prescribed mandatory decompression stops).

Kev, OT but are you GUE? I Enjoyed reading your posts on advanced wreck diving and accelerated deco.

 

[Kevrumbo]

Kev, OT but are you GUE? I Enjoyed reading your posts on advanced wreck diving and accelerated deco.

Not currently . . .GUE is the preeminent agency for Tech & Cave Training, but my interests have always been in historical WWII Indo-Pacific Wrecks, and GUE has not yet been able to offer a bonafide Wreck Penetration Course. The best compromise was to train with resident Instructors & Guides over the years (primarily in Truk Lagoon, and Subic Bay Philippines), who regularly dive and have the experience with the kind of wrecks I'm interested in and who employ overhead DIR/Hogarth techniques as a common fundamental base.

Cycles of success, but sometimes leading to hubris and mistakes with lessons learned -and shared here on ScubaBoard- resulting in wisdom gained. . .

"The far object of a training system is to prepare . . .mentally [in order] to cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium." --S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire.

"The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure." --Admiral James Stockdale

 

[jadairiii]

This will not guarantee ever having a run-a-way inflator but....after every use I make sure I rinse the inflator well with fresh water, shake out all the water, then fully inflate the wing with the power inflator, that dries it out pretty well so water does not just sit in there. Plus, I rebuild mine about every year.