Why choosing an instructor sucks

[KevinNM]

So how would you create a better system for scuba, a system to train and continually evaluate scuba instructors to eliminate the incompetents? How much would it cost for the instructor, the dive shops who hire them, and the agencies required to manage their continuing education? As you make those calculations, keep in mind that the punch line to a very old joke is that the difference between an extra large pizza and a scuba instructor is that an extra large pizza can feed a family of four.

That’s what GUE has done. Is it perfect? No. You can certainly end up with a technically good instructor who doesn’t work well with you. And AJ has implied that not all the instructors are as good as the one’s I’ve encountered. But in general, the folks teaching the GUE cave classes in florida seem solid.

You certainly don’t instructors certified when their IE class gets a student drowned. Which seems like a pretty low standard, but you’d be surprised...

And they also did the part where the instructors can make a good living. So it’s not cheapest route.

But there are non-GUE florida instructors that are good. Ken referred me to Jon Bernot for a cavern class, and Jon was both a great instructor and a very active cave diver and explorer.