Clarification:
Knots are not required practically for DM but there are questions on the PADI DiveMaster exams about which is the appropriate knot to tie for a given situation.
Hmm...I must have missed those questions.
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Clarification:
Knots are not required practically for DM but there are questions on the PADI DiveMaster exams about which is the appropriate knot to tie for a given situation.
Clarification:
Knots are taught in the PADI Search and Recovery Adventure Dive and Specialty classes. They are not required practically for DM but there are questions on the PADI DiveMaster exams about which is the appropriate knot to tie for a given situation.
There is no reason I can think of where a DM should be absolutely required to be able to tie knots unless they are assisting on a course or involved with running the boat. If you're running the boat then hopefully you've learned something from the captain - and for goodness sake, even if you don't, these things are not hard to do - so learn, dammit!
The three knots - sheet bend, bowline and two half hitches - cropped up at every Instructor exam I ever attended - if you don't know them then it's a *really* easy way to fail somebody else.
You don't necessarily need to know them as a DM (but it will help) - but of course you *will* need them as an instructor.
grogs knots is a great website - use it and learn...!
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Two exams. One on standards and the other a 5-parter on physics, physiology, the RDP, equipment and skills & environment.So how the IE works is that outside examiners arrive and give practical tests on anything from your training (or what should have been part of your training)? I thought it was a 2 day written exam. Is it all practical or is there a written component, too? Sounds pretty neat in concept, but kind of intimidating when you're the one who is going to be taking it!![]()
You're right on about that, but thanks for the reminder. I finished the DM Manual today and all the knowledge reviewes, but then started to have a little anxiety while flipping through the appendix. I think I'm going to write all those questions out on index cards and carry them around with me the same way I used to study my Italian vocab. I can make piles of what I know cold, what I know but have to take a minute to recall, and what I need to look up again.It's only as intimidating as you allow it to be.
so the story Jim told about a candidate being asked to tie a bowline to a liftbag would be an example of one of the 5 skill demos or one of the 3 presentations to simulated students?