Padi Instructor Gear swap?

[mullannix930]

I'm just curious. With the COVID-19 in full swing... Is PADI or the other agencies still requiring DM and instructor student to perform the gear swap (sharing one regulator)? If so, have they altered it at all?

 

[Graeme Fraser]

I'm just curious. With the COVID-19 in full swing... Is PADI or the other agencies still requiring DM and instructor student to perform the gear swap (sharing one regulator)? If so, have they altered it at all?

If you haven't had a chance yet, check out the PADI Pro site and watch the Covid19 Risk Reduction webinars on their training update page. They cover this as well other transmission considerations including skill and prep. My region is EMEA but there's bound to be one for The Americas.

 

[tursiops]

I'm just curious. With the COVID-19 in full swing... Is PADI or the other agencies still requiring DM and instructor student to perform the gear swap (sharing one regulator)? If so, have they altered it at all?

There is no more air-sharing of a single regulator, per Training Bulletin 3Q2020. But the bar stays high; a pass requires neutral buoyancy from start to finish...a single touch of the bottom or the surface fails.

 

[mullannix930]

Thanks guys

 

[sea_ledford]

..a dingle touch of the bottom or the surface fails.

So you have to do this on your 100th dive? Nekkid? What do the ladies do? Wouldn't cold water make dingle touches less likely? That's kind of an unfair advantage to the northern state people! I'm filing a complaint!

 

[ChuckP]

There is no more air-sharing of a single regulator, per Training Bulletin 3Q2020. But the bar stays high; a pass requires neutral buoyancy from start to finish...a dingle touch of the bottom or the surface fails.

I guess I need to go look at the updates - for the DM gear exchange, neutral buoyant thru the whole process? Oh, I gotta go look at it

 

[tursiops]

So you have to do this on your 100th dive? Nekkid? What do the ladies do? Wouldn't cold water make dingle touches less likely? That's kind of an unfair advantage to the northern state people! I'm filing a complaint!

I edited my post. Thanks.
Sure glad it was a typo.

 

[ginti]

GUE introduced a modified version of the S-drill, I guess you can find it on youtube; but this is for all their courses, not for DM/instructors...

 

[Miyaru]

GUE ...

 

[ginti]

no no no no no no no... I am out of this