Adobo
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"Testing New Waters" GUE Rec1 dive course on Vimeo
I thought this was interesting to watch. The honesty with which they show the divers on the first day, and their dives on the last, was very impressive to me.
This is what ten long days of instruction can produce, in terms of diver skill and comfort in the water. Very few of our students look like this when we're done with them . . . How about anybody else? Anyone willing to sign up for a more than $1000, ten day open water class?
I think that the people who realize the value of a class like this already have their open water cert (and likely have taken fundies). So the people who do "get it" don't have a need for the class. Really, the market for this class is around the friends and family of GUE divers. I just can't imagine anyone uninitiated figuring the value for themselves.
Personally, now that I have seen good training (and not so good training), the more baffling thing to me is that it is far easier to sell a $1500 dive computer than it is to sell a comprehensive open water class like Rec1.