Teaching my daughter scuba diving?

[bpotkin]

Texasguy thats funny. I'll post some scuba glamour shots of her shortly.

On a serious note, sincerely, can someone explain to me how I can screw up
a mask clearing drill, a regulator recovery drill, an air sharing drill or for that
matter any of the other basic skills? I know I have less than 100 dives,
but how many bad scuba behaviors can I actually teach her in the pool?
As a warm up for her "Official OW training" I've shown her Youtube videos
from actual instructors performing drills, I have over and over again talked
to her about never holding her breath, ascending slowly, equalizing and
a lot more detailed information than I ever learned in my OW class. Most
of my learning came after Ow with private instruction. Seriously, can
someone give me an example of some bad behavior or bad advise I may
be "likely" giving my daughter?

 

[spectrum]

You danced right around it, lung over expansion injury. Yes you told her about it and believe she understands. Should she get into some sort of distress situation in a drill or otherwise and bolt for the surface a trained instructor is much better equipped to recognize the situation and to intervene.

A breath hold ascent from as little as 4 feet could get her into a lot of trouble.

It's all easy as long as nothing goes wrong. If the magnitude of this risk comes as any surprise to you then it may be a good idea to rethink your role in her dive training. Aside from that my prior posts stands.

Pete

 

[DaleC]

Oops oops

 

[TSandM]

You know, I think we overplay the issues.

If this man's daughter is a sensible sort of woman, and not nervous about being in the water, and he has explained to her the risks of holding her breath, I doubt she's at major risk. After all, that's what we do in class -- and ratios permit one instructor to be in the water with up to eight students. Do you really think that one instructor can be on top of eight students at all times?

To the OP -- I can think of bad habits a student could pick up, and the very worst one is kneeling while doing skills. Unfortunately, all too many people are started that way -- were you? In our classes, we model skills doing neutral and off the bottom, and we encourage students to work toward being able to do that themselves. Perhaps to many people's amazement, the vast majority of our students are clearing their masks and sharing gas in midwater in the pool by the end of their confined water sessions.

In addition, ineffective kicking needs to be nipped in the bud, before a bicycle-type kick gets well established as a habit. And swimming with the hands is easiest to stop at the beginning, too. I spend a lot of my time in pool sessions working on kick mechanics and hand swimming with students, when they are not demonstrating skills to the instructor.

There ARE advantages to working with someone who is both trained and has teaching experience. But again, as I observed above, I don't hear you saying that this pool practice you are doing is in lieu of a certification course, but simply as a preparation for one. I simply don't see major harm.

 

[Hawkwood]

Texasguy thats funny. I'll post some scuba glamour shots of her shortly.

On a serious note, sincerely, can someone explain to me how I can screw up
a mask clearing drill, a regulator recovery drill, an air sharing drill or for that
matter any of the other basic skills? I know I have less than 100 dives,
but how many bad scuba behaviors can I actually teach her in the pool?
As a warm up for her "Official OW training" I've shown her Youtube videos
from actual instructors performing drills, I have over and over again talked
to her about never holding her breath, ascending slowly, equalizing and
a lot more detailed information than I ever learned in my OW class. Most
of my learning came after Ow with private instruction. Seriously, can
someone give me an example of some bad behavior or bad advise I may
be "likely" giving my daughter?

Snorts water up her nose doing mask clearing in four feet of water...panics, holds her breath and stands up.

Does not mean it will happen, no, but you asked what could happen.

 

[EastEndDiver]

Seriously, can
someone give me an example of some bad behavior or bad advise I may
be "likely" giving my daughter?[/QUOTE]

Yes,that an inexperienced non qualified diver can teach someone scuba.It's bad enough that Zero to Hero "instructors" attempt to do it.

 

[DaleC]

Snorts water up her nose doing mask clearing in four feet of water...panics, holds her breath and stands up.

Does not mean it will happen, but you asked what could happen.

And being with an instructor watching a number of students makes one immune to this how? I want to know how an instructor could prevent anyone from holding their breath on ascent better than a one on one attentive father.

Seriously, can
someone give me an example of some bad behavior or bad advise I may
be "likely" giving my daughter?

Yes,that an inexperienced non qualified diver can teach someone scuba.It's bad enough that Zero to Hero "instructors" attempt to do it.

Yet many of those divers who initially taught the instructors who teach today were probably taught by "non professionals". The notion that one cannot learn without the guidance of a "professional" is ridiculous.

 

[Hawkwood]

When a student bolts, you hold them down. You don't do skills "en mass" they are done one-on-one.

...and there is more to it than that...learning to teach is mostly about how to prevent crap from happening and what to do when it does.

When it all goes well, it's easy and fun.

Notice I said "could"?

 

[DaleC]

Where were you during my OW class? I distinctly remember spending a lot of time alone (relatively speaking) waiting in line as my instructor did skills with one student after another. My mask clearing drill was done in a semi circle with the instructor pointing to each student in succession.
I suspect my experiences were not that unusual.

 

[redacted]

Where were you during my OW class? I distinctly remember spending a lot of time alone (relatively speaking) waiting in line as my instructor did skills with one student after another. My mask clearing drill was done in a semi circle with the instructor pointing to each student in succession.
I suspect my experiences were not that unusual.

Or practicing on our own or with a buddy skills like mask clearing and sharing air or switching between primary and alt 2nds.