I’ve been on this board for a couple of years now and it seems to me everybody’s getting a little carried away.
I work for a Resort in Roatan a couple of months out of the year and these folks make up about 75% of our customers. Most of these people only dive once a year while on vacation.
They want to relax and see the pretty fish and the beautiful reef. The don’t want to join a CULT or in-list in the WUAFEN SS. They expect me to be a DIVE MASTER not a REICH MARSHAL.
As I said the people are my CUSTOMERS and they expect to be CATERIED to, as they should. After all they are PAYING us.
We pride our selves in running a very SAFE professional Dive operation.
We dive in 80 deg plus water with visibility of 90 feet or more. We use a 2 dive master team with one as a guide and the other in the rear to keep an eye on every one. Our dive groups are usually 4 to 6 and never more then 10.
Our primary focus is to eliminate PANICK. We talk with our guests the night they check in, before we dive the next morning. I’ve been doing this a while and it’s not hard to pick out the people who are full of ****. We talk with people on the dive boat both on the way out and back in. We go out of our way to give advice with out PREACHING. If you want to be a better diver we will go out of our way to teach you. If you are happy with where you are we will take extra care to be sure you stay safe.
We dive very conservative profiles and observer our divers not only under water but on the boat and in the lodge. Buy the end of the Second day I can assure you we have folks sorted out buy their ABILITIES. The better divers are then allowed a lot longer leash. And the really good ones are invited out for additional dives in the evening to do the neat stuff…………
But back to the point.
Now just how uncomfortable do these folks need to feel cause they don't know the proper procedure for rigging their stage bottles or what their Po2 is after everydive.
I only need these people to be comfortable knowing that they can handle the problems that might occor in the enviorment they are diving in THIS DIVE.
I would grately perfer my divers to have a solid understanding of the BARE BASICS then a little bit about allot of things that have no impact on their safety during the dive they are doing.
The most dangerous thing our quests do is ride in the van from the Resort to the Airport and back.
These folks aren’t going to dive the DORA, they aren’t going to buy a dry suit, they just want to RELAX and have FUN.
If we want our sport to GROW we need to stop trying to SCARE people away.
It’s called CUSTMER SERVICE you can lead people to be better divers while they are having a good time. Our you can treat them like idiots and beat diving out of them.
I know this is not congruent with the opinions of most of you on this board but it works for me. Any time I can get some time off from work I just jump on plane to Roatan, get reimbursed for the ticket and work for a few weeks.
That's just my opion I could be wrong
I work for a Resort in Roatan a couple of months out of the year and these folks make up about 75% of our customers. Most of these people only dive once a year while on vacation.
They want to relax and see the pretty fish and the beautiful reef. The don’t want to join a CULT or in-list in the WUAFEN SS. They expect me to be a DIVE MASTER not a REICH MARSHAL.
As I said the people are my CUSTOMERS and they expect to be CATERIED to, as they should. After all they are PAYING us.
We pride our selves in running a very SAFE professional Dive operation.
We dive in 80 deg plus water with visibility of 90 feet or more. We use a 2 dive master team with one as a guide and the other in the rear to keep an eye on every one. Our dive groups are usually 4 to 6 and never more then 10.
Our primary focus is to eliminate PANICK. We talk with our guests the night they check in, before we dive the next morning. I’ve been doing this a while and it’s not hard to pick out the people who are full of ****. We talk with people on the dive boat both on the way out and back in. We go out of our way to give advice with out PREACHING. If you want to be a better diver we will go out of our way to teach you. If you are happy with where you are we will take extra care to be sure you stay safe.
We dive very conservative profiles and observer our divers not only under water but on the boat and in the lodge. Buy the end of the Second day I can assure you we have folks sorted out buy their ABILITIES. The better divers are then allowed a lot longer leash. And the really good ones are invited out for additional dives in the evening to do the neat stuff…………
But back to the point.
Now just how uncomfortable do these folks need to feel cause they don't know the proper procedure for rigging their stage bottles or what their Po2 is after everydive.
I only need these people to be comfortable knowing that they can handle the problems that might occor in the enviorment they are diving in THIS DIVE.
I would grately perfer my divers to have a solid understanding of the BARE BASICS then a little bit about allot of things that have no impact on their safety during the dive they are doing.
The most dangerous thing our quests do is ride in the van from the Resort to the Airport and back.
These folks aren’t going to dive the DORA, they aren’t going to buy a dry suit, they just want to RELAX and have FUN.
If we want our sport to GROW we need to stop trying to SCARE people away.
It’s called CUSTMER SERVICE you can lead people to be better divers while they are having a good time. Our you can treat them like idiots and beat diving out of them.
I know this is not congruent with the opinions of most of you on this board but it works for me. Any time I can get some time off from work I just jump on plane to Roatan, get reimbursed for the ticket and work for a few weeks.
That's just my opion I could be wrong