vjanelle
Contributor
There's a pretty good argument and rather convincing data that suggest students who are trained in longer classes are more confident about their diving and thus are more likely to stick with it and not contribute to the observed attrition rate.
Totally. I don't think I'd be diving as much if I didn't spend as much time as I did doing classes, but there's no way I would've considered this sport at the time if it would've cost me $900+ in classwork.
... Mind you, how many thousands of dollars later...