How to find your instructor - is cheap better ?

[mattmexico]

yo

I have written an article and posted the entry on our ProTec blog under Protec Advanced Training Facility — Protec Blog in regards to 'How to find your Instructor - is cheap better ?'

greetings
Matt

 

[Walter]

In the field of diving instruction are a lot of diving instructors who offer the best or highest level of training but charge rock bottom prices. ........................Dive Instructors who live on the financial edge could be prone to sloppy instruction to shortcut the educational process to get to the next training program and student. Cheap instruction and courses with a heavy discount in conjunction with cheap and inferior equipment are not the best foundation for a solid diving education.

This doesn't sound like "best or highest level of training" to me.

 

[siikik]

A quality instructor is going to be worth any price you pay...



Ken

 

[Coldwater_Canuck]

This doesn't sound like "best or highest level of training" to me.

I think he meant that they "offered" that, not that they "provided" it.

 

[Walter]

Probably, but that's not what he said.

 

[Tailspin]

Lowest cost doesn't always mean best quality (or value).

Does it bother anyone except me that when you drive across a bridge, or lean out over a railing on some observation tower 100 feet off the ground, that all these things were made by the 'lowest bidder'?

 

[Walter]

You sound like John Glen sitting in his Mercury capsule.

 

[caseybird]

How to find your instructor - is cheap better ?

Well, when you say it like that...

To put a different spin on your question there are many on this board that feel nearly all commercial instruction is near worthless. The phrase is something like "cert. cards don't mean anything". If you feel that way, you might as well get the fastest, cheapest cert possible that will get you air at the shop, and then find the concerned, highly competent (and hopefully free) mentor.
In those terms, yes, cheap is better.
Hey, recreational scuba ain't brain surgury.

 

[Coldwater_Canuck]

Probably, but that's not what he said.

Well he said "offer the best or highest level of training".

I can offer you a million dollars for your snorkel right now: doesn't mean you're ever going to see that money. I can offer guitar lessons that will turn you into the next Hendrix: doesn't mean you'll actually get that quality of instruction. I *think* that was his point anyways ...

 

[Web Monkey]

yo

I have written an article and posted the entry on our ProTec blog under Protec Advanced Training Facility — Protec Blog in regards to 'How to find your Instructor - is cheap better ?'

Price and quality aren't related.

Cheap could mean "fast and awful", or it could mean a great business model and a successful shop staffed by professionals from various fields who teach SCUBA because they love it, and not for the money.

Conversely, an expensive class could indicate nothing more than greed, or a first-rate instructor who wants to get paid.

Terry