"Worst Diver I have ever Seen!"

[Wildcard]

What I would do after every dive with is this. Have a debrief on the dive on godd and bads. Fisrt talk about yourself and tell all say what you did wrong or should have done better. Then let everyone do this in turn. Then talk about the other divers on what you saw them do good and bad. Hopefully she will learn her own problems by either the other divers telling her or she will tell herself. Also all the other divers might learn something about themselves that will make us all better divers. We do this after every dive and no one has pulled a gun yet. We also talk about what we are going to do in the pre-dive. Think about yourself as being a coach that is not afraid to be coach.

You havn't read any of this thread, have you?


How? Spent her life sucking on the teat of the government she hates so much. Never had to do real work or be held accountable for her work or sucess, or lack of it. Social worker ya know? What else would you expect?????

 

[victor]

Now, once she can do that without the ankle weights she'll be on her way

I have some friends who use them almost every dive but they are also capable of diving well without them...baby steps!

Baby steps,
Persuade her to buy some heavy fins, then she can dispense with the ankle weights.
Probably easier than persuading her to move her weights until her trim is correct.
Maybe this was a revelation for her and it will all come together.
Oh, just looked out my window to see a squadron of pigs fly by.
:lol:

 

[tkdawg]

Why don't you tell me why you think I did not read the thread. Just because you are a great diver that no one else can give input. Take my post or not but you don't have to be a piss about it. The post was not for you any way.

 

[Wildcard]

Becouse you mearly rehashed the same thing that has been said a dozen times already. BTW, welcome to the board.

 

[Ed Palma]

When I was doing my medical internship, I had a co-intern who was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. Goodness only knows how she made it as far as internship, but her performance doing hospital work was downright frightening! Even when we'd try to tell her that what she was doing had the potential to harm patients, she wouldn't listen. We would tell the higher-ups about her SNAFUs but an incident with another doctor was what drove her out of the hospital. Last I heard, she was accepted into another hopital and was wreaking havoc over there.

Bottom line? There will always be someone out there who will be willing to certify this lady in question. Maybe Wildcard is right, and she really does need to be on medication. Sometimes no amount of coaxing or cajoling will help - until something truly criminal happens. I hope it never comes to that.

By the way, it HAS been an interesting 16 pages thus far!

I did like the fair and balanced assessment toward the end that maybe there was hope for her Baby steps. A happy ending perhaps?

 

[BigTuna]

Another risk, which you didn't mention, is that she might buddy up with somebody when you're not there, jeopardizing the buddy in addition to herself.

My personal test (beyond certification skills) for whether a person is qualified to dive is: "Would I be comfortable if this person were my daugher's buddy?"

You're covering for her by making sure she always dives with a pro, but how can you ensure you'll always be able to do that? Somebody involved has a responsibility confront her with the issue of buddy safety, not just her own safety.

Diving can be dangerous to one's health; she needs to understand this and take it seriously.

 

[michaelb51]

You havn't read any of this thread, have you?

How? Spent her life sucking on the teat of the government she hates so much. Never had to do real work or be held accountable for her work or sucess, or lack of it. Social worker ya know? What else would you expect?????

I just read the entire thread. I am also entertained. I read that this person:

• Spent her life sucking on the teat of the government she hates so much
• Is a social worker
• Invested in the dive boat
• Loves to spend money
• Will never learn
• Just had a learning breakthrough

I've always heard the less knowledge you have the more money you're gonna need. Perhaps it's also true the more money you have the less knowledge you have need of.

Seems to have worked for this person, at least. Or, perhaps there's just no such thing as student failure. Three cheers for justleesa.

I believe that fewer things are true than any crowd is certain of.

 

[Coldiver1]

How is she on the boat? Assembling her own gear, organization, mood? The reason I ask this is because I knew a guy that would lose judgement at around 30 feet. Narcosis effects most people at 70 feet, but we are all different. We finally had him write his name on a slate at ten foot increments. His signature got worse the deeper he went.

 

[Wildcard]

As has been posted here a dozen times or more, she can't set up her own gear or problem solve at any time or depth. Good thought thou...

 

[runamonk]

Lol Bob.