Does anyone else feel like the requirements to becoming a certified dive instructor are a bit low or can be achieved in too short a time?
I constantly read on how divers withing a few months even weeks after their first time diving go and become dive instructors where most of their dives are done in the class to becomming a dive instructor. Even most who fake thier minimum dives just so they can get into the classes.
Not trying to offend anyone especially instructors but there are some things that just come with time and experience.
I feel OW instructors can get certified in the carribean or parts where there is clear water for visual reasons but I believe they must ALSO BE CERTIFIED FOR THE STATE THEY ARE TRAINING OTHERS.
Certainly diving in New Jersey or New York is significantly different from diving in tropical waters that is like a swimming pool. It disturbes me to hear the guy has been diving for a short time and runs down to florida and is now an instructor when diving conditions are significantly different. How are you prepared for the areas when all you dive is a swimming pool environment.
I hear more and more about trainers being narced and hyperventilating and doing other unusual things and not responding properly to these situations.
Anyone else feel the same or different to give me a better feeling about OW instructor training of what I consider newbs?
I constantly read on how divers withing a few months even weeks after their first time diving go and become dive instructors where most of their dives are done in the class to becomming a dive instructor. Even most who fake thier minimum dives just so they can get into the classes.
Not trying to offend anyone especially instructors but there are some things that just come with time and experience.
I feel OW instructors can get certified in the carribean or parts where there is clear water for visual reasons but I believe they must ALSO BE CERTIFIED FOR THE STATE THEY ARE TRAINING OTHERS.
Certainly diving in New Jersey or New York is significantly different from diving in tropical waters that is like a swimming pool. It disturbes me to hear the guy has been diving for a short time and runs down to florida and is now an instructor when diving conditions are significantly different. How are you prepared for the areas when all you dive is a swimming pool environment.
I hear more and more about trainers being narced and hyperventilating and doing other unusual things and not responding properly to these situations.
Anyone else feel the same or different to give me a better feeling about OW instructor training of what I consider newbs?