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I have a guy in my dive group that gets a lot of razzing because he is so anal when it comes to demanding as an instructor ,, student mastering of skills. Most all will say they have never seen anyone like that. The comment alone speaks a lot about instructors in general. If I was to ask an new OW how to tow someone I would get the italian salute. Those items I would call the bare minimum rescue skills. The actual rescue course goes much further. As one said they never had to use the course skills for rescue. However they will say they use diver assist a lot. Diver assist is generally an unknown thing in OW training. Im not an instructor but when I work with new divers we do these things to (if I may say) make up for the short comings of the OW class whether agency or instructor related. I cant say how many people I have so called prepped for AOW and other courses, not as a coarse primer but a general skill developing event. There are a lot of experienced divers that can not use a compass, shoot a buoy, hold depth and a lot of other things the as an AOW should be able to.
I have a guy in my dive group that gets a lot of razzing because he is so anal when it comes to demanding as an instructor ,, student mastering of skills. Most all will say they have never seen anyone like that. The comment alone speaks a lot about instructors in general. If I was to ask an new OW how to tow someone I would get the italian salute. Those items I would call the bare minimum rescue skills. The actual rescue course goes much further. As one said they never had to use the course skills for rescue. However they will say they use diver assist a lot. Diver assist is generally an unknown thing in OW training. Im not an instructor but when I work with new divers we do these things to (if I may say) make up for the short comings of the OW class whether agency or instructor related. I cant say how many people I have so called prepped for AOW and other courses, not as a coarse primer but a general skill developing event. There are a lot of experienced divers that can not use a compass, shoot a buoy, hold depth and a lot of other things the as an AOW should be able to.