Is 100 dives enough for an instructor?

[jhelmuth]

This has to be one of the "Top 10" repeated trolls that serve to run up the posts and flood the board with boundless trash. I wish some of you would stop these. The only reason I'm posting here is in hopes that the regulators will notice and either let me know why this stuff is allowed to be repeated so much, or maybe they'll actually discuss this as problem.

Sorry for the rant - but I can't believe that so many have time for replying to such an insignificant subject that has an obvious answer.

 

[blackice]

jhelmuth once bubbled...
TSorry for the rant - but I can't believe that so many have time for replying to such an insignificant subject that has an obvious answer.

While I agree with you about the answer being obvious ... some people still wonder why? It's these people that may want to be Instructers at 100dives and the many others that can tell them why not.

 

[o2scuba]

blackice once bubbled...
While I agree with you about the answer being obvious ... some people still wonder why? It's these people that may want to be Instructers at 100dives and the many others that can tell them why not.

Wow, I thought this thread has been beaten to death already.

A lot of the confusion is due to the original post
"is 100 dives enough to be an instructor"

I don't know of any agency that allows someone to become an instructor solely by their number of dives.

The post should have read
"is 100 dives enough for someone to enter an instructor training program."

PADI for example, you have to have 100 dives, be OW, AOW, Rescue, and divemaster certified, just to enter the course. Someone with these certs should be well adjusted to diving. (unless they had a lousy instructor)

Teaching is a whole different ball park. The instructor training programs teach "how to teach", not how to dive. There is a considerable amout of time spent practicing skills to the "demonstration quality" level. Even the best of Divemasters is usually humbled when they realize how intense this program is. When they see that the skills that they thought they did perfectly, require some tuning.

Are we gonna drag this one around the block again?

 

[robway034]

When I go to any class; engineering, driving, SCUBA, sky diving, whatever, the one thing that I always look for in my instructor is their personal experience in the given field! To me the title of "instructor" or "professor" or DIVEMASTER is synonomous with experience!

I think it all depends on the type of dives one has done...

I'm about to take my instructor course, and I have 102 dives only. After the course, I'll have about 115 logged dives. But I think I've seen quite a lot of things while diving...

BUT I still think 100 dives isn't really enough to be an instructor... Because most of the divers don't have that much different types of dives...

 

[aboalreem]

I have seen instructors with more than 500 dives, and they are not that great. I have seen instructors wit 100 dives and they were great..it all depends......
The one thing I would say, instructors with more dives can share more experience...

 

[spectrum]

Well I'm at 104 dives so I have a perspective.

Being where I am doing what I do it has been mainly shore diving with a hand full of boat and quarry dives.

Almost all of my dives have been New England cold water though I did make it into blue water this spring.

I've been in ocean and lake water along with quary enviornments.

I've been diving wet and dry.

I'm comfortable with and love night diving.

I've made numerous dives past 60 feet

I can hold my own as a navigator.

I think I understand dive physics better than most.

I have finally started AOW, to be followed with NAUI Master Diver

My point is that in just over 100 dives I've seen and done a bunch of stuff. I'd like to think I'm at the point where I may be of value to a new diver as a mentor but even with the commensurate training I would not want me as an instructor. It's not so much about learning to do stuff as it is experieince with dealing with the difficult situations. If you are doing things right the incidents should be few and far between. So unless you have been diving with Murphy odds are at 100 you're only just begun.

Pete

 

[diversteve]

Wow, I thought this thread has been beaten to death already.

Um, Guys - this thread is four years old....:lol:

 

[aboalreem]

Four years...maybe 50 years and 10000 dives later, people would be in the same thread!!!

 

[Walter]

I'm about to take my instructor course, and I have 102 dives only.................................

BUT I still think 100 dives isn't really enough to be an instructor.........

Then why are you doing it?