Question New to scuba diving, is it a bad instructor?

[Youssef]

Same applies to the police report. Probably achieves nothing this time, but important to put him on their radar ready to act if/when something more serious occurs.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

You were sexually assaulted by this creep. File a police report as soon as possible. And email and CALL THE AGENCY! Don't email or message them. Call them and tell them you are filing a police report.
They may try to discourage you from doing that. Don't let them. If possible, record the phone call.
Keep a record of ALL communication. Do not have any further communication with the instructor.

 

[Still Kicking]

Hopefully this leads to a prosecution and a conviction. Then the guy can teach snorkeling in the showers.

 

[Ez E]

Any man learn to shoot a gun while another man was snoogling up behind them? This is shutterstock, not some rare instance.

Yes. That is not uncommon at all. Although the instructors are not rubbing their genitalia on you like what happened to OP. My wifes family has been in the firearms business for 3 generations and they have some excellent instructors that will work with you in a similar manner to the picture you posted. Ive sat in on many of those. They are not disgusting or perverted at all. These are professionals teaching you the “right” way to do things.

OP story is straight up screwed up. Please dont drag other industries into this when you dont know what you are talking about.

FYI: my wife was trained like your picture. She shoots better than me and was never uncomfortable. Because it was a professional interaction not sexual like OP’s.

 

[McmScuba]

To me OP‘s report doesn‘t sound credible at all bc so many things just don‘t add up. Maybe I‘m wrong on this….but everyone who thinks the OP has an obligation to press charges for the sake of other students being safer is also wrong. I get the sentiment, but real life is also a bit different. Being a vivctim doesn‘t force you to do anything. Whaterver way this person decides to cope and proceed is entirely up to them amd they don’t owe anything to anyone. And believe me, reporting any incident like this , be it to padi, the police or whatever institution, will cause a lot more questions than have been asked here. This shouldn‘t defer anyone from reporting, but all those things are easier said than done.

 

[Kimela]

I haven’t read every page of the thread. Did the OP name the instructor or where this happened?

 

[Ez E]

I haven’t read every page of the thread. Did the OP name the instructor or where this happened?

No.

 

[boulderjohn]

@tridacna the issue is that just reporting is unlikely to get the results that are needed. maybe i'm a cynic, but I fully expect that PADI will say some BS that they couldn't find enough evidence and sweep it under the rug and tripadvisor will just scrub the bad review. then in a few more months we'll get another thread from the next victim. and that is probably just the tip of the iceberg for what is happening.

A very similar thing happened with a dive operation in Ambergris Cay in Belize about 15 years ago. Both the instructor and the operation were expelled by PADI.

 

[swellmo]

Yikes. This is terrible

 

[runsongas]

@boulderjohn I forgot about that incident, so maybe we have some hope after all that PADI will do the right thing on their end and investigate things

PADI expels Amigos del Mar Dive Shop - The San Pedro Sun

On June 27th PADI expelled Amigos del Mar Dive Shop and Marciano Mendez, Amigos is also involved in a sexual assault incident.

www.sanpedrosun.com