Your Best Instructor and Why:

[Fish_Whisperer]

Jimmy Rhodes: Just tells it like it is, doesn't sugarcoat anything, and has incredible patience, a phenomenal level of experience, and presents things with humor and enthusiasm.

 

[Talon]

Honest answer - EXPERIENCE has been my best instructor and the friends I have dove with. I have been very fortunate in that I have had some exceptional dive buddies. Which is fortunate because I have yet to have an instructor that really pushed me

 

[Uncle Pug]

Andrew Georgitsis
Four of my dive buddies and myself took a nitrox class from 5th Dimension/Kent. Following that class, Andrew introduced us to DIR.

Later Shane and I took GUE Tech 1 from him. He gave us plenty of opportunity to fail and then let our failures teach us what we had to learn. He continued to add multiple failure scenarios and never let us get to a place where we felt we had it nailed (but I did get close to considering golf as an alternative.)

He didn't give up... and neither did we... though it took far longer than it should have for us to even get it close to right.

 

[Jelly beans are evil]

my best instructors are George and Mick. they give us confindence and if we are scared about doing anything they give us the confidence to do it

 

[Gary D.]

Dunn, Debolt and Ski. The three instructors that tried their hardest to kill us over a 16 week period but didn’t. During their gentler times we learned a lot about diving and survival.

Gary D.

 

[wreckchick]

Gray O'Hara, my divemaster instructor, because he grilled me about everything I did during a dive with students. Why was I there? Why was I looking at that? Where was my hand during this? Did I notice 'whatever'? He made me analyze and think about my diving a completely different way that has helped me be far more aware of what I'm doing when I'm supervising divers or student divers. He truly brought me to a level that gave me the confidence I needed to really call myself a Divemaster then and an Instructor now. I hope that everyone who undertakes a leadership level certification is lucky enough to have someone like that to lead the way.

Rachel

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

The instructor that I've studied under that I respect the most is Eric Keys. He was my instructor trainer and certifier. He had a manner of teaching that I have desperatly tried to copy. He would never directly answer a question but instead lead you down the path and make you feel like you just really knew the answer, which you did but he had a knack of dragging the right answer out of you. Great teacher.

 

[SFLDiver]

hehehe... I never told you that I just made that stuff up!

Reflecting back on my Adv.Rescue training with MB,

Hmmm, so the oxygen suppositories aren't -really- necessary ...
for rectal embolisms (aka farting at depth) ?

 

[Scottri]

Dave Ishmael and Under Water Works in Tigard Oregon. That man taught me a lot and I continue to learn from him. He taught me to be a Divemaster and how to anticipate problems and solve them before the become major issues. He's a great teacher without an ego.

 

[PaulChristenson]

Does it all with elan...