PADI Instructors

[SteveDiver]

Wow... now having a mask on the forehead is not only a sign of distress but an automatic indication that the person is drowning?

You know, Firefyter is 100% accurate by saying that "not EVERBODY thinks that it's a distress call" .

Just because an old lady is standing at an intersection, it doesn't mean she needs help to cross the street. Following your reasoning she better take the arm of whoever decides she needs assistance, uh?

What is so difficult about letting people be. Is there additional patches for rescues accomplished or just a race for the vacancy left by Mother Theresa?

So you are trained to look for "distress signs" very nice... look and look until your eyes dry out. However, be aware that your help will not be welcome if the emergency
is only in your mind.

Very well stated! Look, it is simple to read someones face that is having difficulty or that is in distress normally a distressed diver with their mask on their forehead will not be smiling and they usually are flopping around with the look of terror on their faces.

 

[smb1014]

I am fully aware that there are other signs to distress than just the mask on the forehead. I wouldn't automaticlly jump on the person and put in place a rescue. I am just a little peeved at the fact that if I showed concern for another diver and I get told to mind my own ****ing buisiness - that's wrong

 

[String]

I dont think anyone minds someone asking are they ok. The issue is someone repeatedly asking (or acting) just because their particular agency classes an action as a distress sign when not everyone else does.

If someone asks me if im ok i dont mind and i reply. If someone asks me "Are you ok? You have your mask on your head" i'll be less polite but will still respond stating that i know where my mask is and im fine. If they kept asking after that i wouldnt even attempt to be polite.

 

[Nobby]

Guys and gals of the mysterious underwater world this topic has been milked like the archetypal dead cow. ENOUGH....we ain't gonna change how people wear their masks and we can go round the buoy infinite times. Dive and be merry either way understand that opinions are like orifices at the base of the spine....everyone has one!

Amen

End of sermon

 

[Firefyter]

I am fully aware that there are other signs to distress than just the mask on the forehead. I wouldn't automaticlly jump on the person and put in place a rescue. I am just a little peeved at the fact that if I showed concern for another diver and I get told to mind my own ****ing buisiness - that's wrong

I think you need to go back and reread what I wrote.

If you had come up to me at the quarry and asked me once, I would have said Thank you, I'm fine. After that the gloves come off, and I would have told you to get the **** away from me. If your instructor had politely reminded us of anything, we would have politely told him to mind his own ****ed business.

Showing concern is fine.....acting like you think I'm ignorant is another matter entirely, as shown by your original post.....

I was recently at Dutch Springs and I was doing my rescue class many OW students from another shop had their masks on their forehead. We had to ask many times if they were OK. After a few times my instructor politely reminded the instructor of the other shop and thankfully we didn't have to actually rescue any one.

This will get you told to mind your own ****ed business every day of the week.

I dont think anyone minds someone asking are they ok. The issue is someone repeatedly asking (or acting) just because their particular agency classes an action as a distress sign when not everyone else does.

If someone asks me if im ok i dont mind and i reply. If someone asks me "Are you ok? You have your mask on your head" i'll be less polite but will still respond stating that i know where my mask is and im fine. If they kept asking after that i wouldnt even attempt to be polite.

This is my point exactly.....

 

[paolov]

....we ain't gonna change how people wear their masks and we can go round the buoy infinite times.
End of sermon

maybe it's not about changing how people wear their stuffs, perhaps, an excuse to add posts tot he board?

 

[Xizang]

I wonder if we will get to the point of discussing on which arm should we wear our dive computer right or left

 

[paolov]

how about snorkel use?

 

[Nobby]

I wonder if we will get to the point of discussing on which arm should we wear our dive computer right or left

What's wrong with the good old tables! HeHeHe

 

[Wijbrandus]

What's wrong with the good old tables! HeHeHe

Ok, I'll bite. What arm should we wear our tables on then? (lol)