dooron
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Hi
I'm currently 4 weeks through a 9 week divemaster internship. I'm concerned about the lack of training and worried that the only skills I'm going to leave with are kit washing and lifting tanks. My dm mentor is hardly ever around and the instructor and dive shop manager range from unhelpful to hostile. There is alot of politics and general negativity centred around the shop. The dm mentor is the owner so unless the instructor gets commission it seems he will not give me any advice.
On top of all that it is not that busy so my open water time is going to be limited. It seems I will just assist on something once then get assessed and signed off with little instruction or guidance. I need to try and make this work and get the most out of it as I've paid £1500 in advance and will not get that back but more importantly I will only be doing this once and I had hoped for a positive experience.
I'm interested in hearing other peoples experience or any advice especially if you've encountered a similar situation. How self taught should I expect the course to be? I realise all dive shops will differ and there are probably lots of different methods of delivering dive master training but I thought the theory would be self study then I expected instruction and guidance on the practical parts.
thanks in advance for your time.
I'm currently 4 weeks through a 9 week divemaster internship. I'm concerned about the lack of training and worried that the only skills I'm going to leave with are kit washing and lifting tanks. My dm mentor is hardly ever around and the instructor and dive shop manager range from unhelpful to hostile. There is alot of politics and general negativity centred around the shop. The dm mentor is the owner so unless the instructor gets commission it seems he will not give me any advice.
On top of all that it is not that busy so my open water time is going to be limited. It seems I will just assist on something once then get assessed and signed off with little instruction or guidance. I need to try and make this work and get the most out of it as I've paid £1500 in advance and will not get that back but more importantly I will only be doing this once and I had hoped for a positive experience.
I'm interested in hearing other peoples experience or any advice especially if you've encountered a similar situation. How self taught should I expect the course to be? I realise all dive shops will differ and there are probably lots of different methods of delivering dive master training but I thought the theory would be self study then I expected instruction and guidance on the practical parts.
thanks in advance for your time.