m3830431
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I think it is unfortunate that a semi regulated agency should have such a variety or members.
Thsy do need more control.
Thsy do need more control.
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13 "Under direct instructor or certified assistant supervision, explore underwater to gain experience"
A very important part of the training dive. How much time are we going to devote to this? Why is there no mention of what the student must occomplish in regards to buoyancy control, trim, buddy awareness. It looks to me like the diver could crwl through the tour and move on to the next dive. Indeed, I have seen exactly that done many many times.
Is my copy, out of date? Has some of this been fixed? Thanks.
Recommendations are nice, but mean nothing in the final analysis.drew52:It is in the recomendations.
drew52:So you are obviously one of those people that needs the warning on the food packet. You know the one that says the packaging will be hot when you remove it from the oven after 30minutes at 450F.
And yes to answer your question your manual is outdated.
Some stuff just shouldn't need to be spelled out to people. In this case however there are recommendations expanding on the actual wording. Spelling out to people how they can meet the requirments.
There is mention of all this stuff you are saying is not mentioned. It is in the recomendations.
drew52:It seems we can choose to read and interpret the manual differently. Ultimately it is still the instructor at the end of the day that interprets the stuff. The good will do the right thing and the bad won't. This is no different in any agency with any standards. Some instructors even choose not to follow what is stated clearly in the bold and again I'm sure this goes for all agencies. The agencies are reliant on their instructors to do the right thing.
drew52:For the good instructors the stuff is all there. For the bad ones it would make no difference any way. They would still train the way they do.
Even Mike who clearly taught great courses towards the end probably needed to read a couple of the recommendations when he first started teaching. If he had followed some of those perhaps he would have taught better classes from day 1. Maybe not great classes but certainly better than he did.
We all learn along the way and maybe I knew better thanks to the instructors that taught me along the way.
I'm out of here. Have a great day.