"Worst Diver I have ever Seen!"

[justleesa]

For some reason buyancy control is impossible for her.

I have it on the tip of my tongue, but I won't say it....:shakehead

Leesa is a AWSOME dive as well as an AWSOME person and I will punch anyone who says otherwise in the nose.

Again...my knight to my rescue :blinking:

 

[Wildcard]

The worst diver that I have ever witnessed is the one who stays at home instead of going diving. I chose to be an instructor to support my habit. However, becoming an instructor I took the hipprocritical oath to turn bad divers into good ones.

The challenge is your if you choose to accept it. All others have failed.

 

[alcina]

My solution is just keep her shallow....keep a safe distance. I think she will eventually get it.

Sorry, Chica - you're deluding yourself. She isn't safe just coz she's shallow and no one in the water is safe when she's in there either. It looks doubtful that one day she'll just "get it" when she doesn't even see there is an "it" to get.

She isn't safe.

maybe the video idea will work. I have no idea who is going to do that though.

That is one of the downsides of this method, for sure.

For some reason buyancy control is impossible for her.

Because she doesn't see the value of buoyancy control as she's gone through so far without it. And because people keep diving with her even when they are telling her she needs to improve to be safe. It's like telling your puppy not to pee on the floor but giving him a puppy treat every time he does - why would he stop?

Put her on a plane and send her to us...we love a challenge

 

[BarryNL]

Just from what I've read of your description I would also ask her if she's on any medications. If she's not then work with her situation awareness and also ask her how she feels during the dives. Even though it's 40 feet she may be narced. Ask her to take a EANx class.

Erm, that helps how? O2 is just as narcotic as nitrogen - in fact, I generally feel more narced on nitrox than on air.

 

[mislav]

Very entertaining thread.

My first instinct would be to try to explain everything to her, but... of course, some people are just not willing to hear it.

Reminds me a lot of a famous quote: "What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some divers you just can't reach..."

I'd go with the video idea. Especially if she were a friend of mine.

 

[victor]

Put her on a plane and send her to us...we love a challenge

Catherine maybe you should take her up on this offer.
A different environment
Not diving with friends so much harder to ignore their advice
Video and instructor can say what they like without fear of offending
A weeks concentrated diving with someone correcting her when she makes mistakes might just stick

It has got to be better than continuing to dive with someone who is an accident waiting to happen. It would be very sad if she hurt herself but much worse if she injured you or another innocent bystander.

 

[dlndavid]

Leesa is a AWSOME dive as well as an AWSOME person and I will punch anyone who says otherwise in the nose.

I officially retract my :joke:, please don't punch me in the nose

 

[chepar]

After reading all the hints as to this diver's identity, I think I can safely say it's not me. . . for a few pages I was rather concerned.

But since one of the clues was that she loves to spend money, that throws me out of the running.

 

[nerobanchee]

On another note...I went to dinner with the people that sold me my house.
The woman is Indonesian and never learned to swim as a child. She proceeded to tell me about scuba diving on an Intro course at resort recently. They both sat there and beamed that she was able to do this even though she could not swim.
Anybody ever heard of this? I was like "oh, ...thats.. nice" I mean what do you say? I did say "did you TELL them that you could not swim?" ..."oh, yes"..beaming, happy, thrilled faces.

Yeah, I actually had someone tell me this. I was like, "Seriously?" and I was speachless after they were like, "Yeah, I am actually afraid of the water, but you dont really need to swim to scuba dive." I dont know if I could even continue with the conversation, I have tried to block it from my memory. Makes me want to ask all of my buddies though if they know how to swim...

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Yeah, I actually had someone tell me this. I was like, "Seriously?" and I was speachless after they were like, "Yeah, I am actually afraid of the water, but you dont really need to swim to scuba dive." I dont know if I could even continue with the conversation, I have tried to block it from my memory. Makes me want to ask all of my buddies though if they know how to swim...

I was in a dive shop on Monday and overheard an instructor (SSI or PADI ... the shop is both) telling two potential students that they didn't need to know how to swim in order to scuba dive. One of them even told her that he was afraid of the water, and she told him not to worry about it.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)