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

[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

 

[Kimela]

Name them and shame them.

 

[johndiver999]

Name them and shame them.

I said that before and I think my post was deleted.

 

[Kimela]

I said that before and I think my post was deleted.

That's interesting. I know there are other threads that discuss dive ops who provided poor service and we have asked the OP to name them and shame them. As I type this some other person could be experiencing something similar to the OP. I do understand people don't want to falsely accuse someone, but if the behavior is this egregious we all deserve to get a heads-up in case we choose this instructor. At the very least, a location would be helpful.

 

[Brett Hatch]

@Kimela and @johndiver999 please see the Staff Message appended to Pressurehead's post #78 in this thread. The OP has elected not to name and shame in this public space, and repeated the point several times. Maybe she'll change her mind on that later, but continuing to suggest it here is not very productive.

 

[Kimela]

@Kimela and @johndiver999 please see the Staff Message appended to Pressurehead's post #78 in this thread. The OP has elected not to name and shame in this public space, and repeated the point several times. Maybe she'll change her mind on that later, but continuing to suggest it here is not very productive.

Thank you. I missed that.

 

[Pearl0123]

Thanks everyone, Here is an update.
PADI has contacted me and told me they had expelled the Instructor. I chose to expose him so female & other new diver can be aware. I want to prevent this situation to happen in the future.

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowUserReviews-g147248-d1075568-r956115722-Dive_Aruba-Oranjestad_Aruba.html

Expelled PADI Professionals | PADI

List of former PADI Instructors and Divemasters who have been expelled from PADI within the last few years

www.padi.com