Lawman once bubbled...
Aren't you supposed to be wearing a swimming suit when
we're in the pool?:wacko:
Are you?
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Lawman once bubbled...
Aren't you supposed to be wearing a swimming suit when
we're in the pool?:wacko:
In many ways YOU should be setting the pace.BartBe once bubbled...
What should a descent OW course dive be like...
Are the instructors supposed to go over the exercices with you on those dives?
How long should they +/- last ?
Do they just take you on a dive... jump in, swim around a bit, get out ?
LOL. I posted my experience with a 2-1/2 day quickie course as an alternative view to all of the moaning and groaning that is always seen on this board about the quality of education. And scubaboard hasn't had its usual quota of PADI-bashing lately .BartBe once bubbled...
that sounds like the last and most irrisponsible divecourse I have ever heard of ??? Talk about rushing trough it ???
Private class or not... this seems like bigtime rush to me.
I could be wrong but I don't think thats the way to start your diving career ?
Some stuff I am recalling from memory of the class 5 years and 250 dives ago. It is quite possible that I did swim test and some quick confined water stuff on the first day. Since I was used to swimming around, eyes open underwater with no mask, we didn't really have to spend much time on mask clearing, snorkeling, or water comfort sort of stuff.MikeFerrara once bubbled...
I may have misunderstood some of what you wrote about your class. However, if I didn't, I think that's at least runner up for the record for the most for standards violations in one class.
You can do the confined water work in confined open water (ocean). But...they can not be combined with or credited as OW dives one and two. The esception is that it isn't required that you leave the water between CW 1 and OW 1 (I think, I don't do it that way so it's not a factor for me).
You need to do CW 1-5 and OW 1-4. Certainly a student shouldn't be overweighted and never alone.
I think the class was VERY fast, although, with one student that get's everything right away it might be possible (but very unlikely) to do it that fast.
All quizes need to be complete before dive 3. The final test may be done after dive 4 though. BTW, buoyant emergency ascents are not practiced at all since their kind of dangerous.
I haven't a clue as to why the dive shop/instructor would be unwilling to allow access to the course manual in advance. From the student's point of view this impedes learning and is a big disadvantage ---- significant enough that this would cause me to find another instructor.g8trdiver once bubbled...
I told her she should ask the dive shop to let her have the books early since she was SO motivated to get started, she could be reading up so that she wasn't so anxious about it. (sometimes your imagination can be worse than reality) But they wouldn't give her the books. (does anyone know why this would be? I think I got my books a couple of weeks early.... just bought them at the dive shop when I signed up for the class....)
Charlie99 once bubbled...
---- significant enough that this would cause me to find another instructor.