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I live in Los Angeles and I do not believe there is any shortage of scuba instructors. I believe that you are confusing group classes with private and semi-private classes. Generally speaking the amount of time it takes to teach a class is approximately the same whether teaching one student or a...

Sir: with all due respect (and I do mean that sincerely as you do have far more experience with teaching and diving than I do) I'm not sure that I have a personal "agenda" other than my position, based on my personal teaching experience, that situations can arise that are beyond one's ability to...

I suspect we might all agree that more thorough and complete training would be better for every diver. I suspect we might all agree that were all of our soldiers trained to the level of Navy Seals or Army Rangers or some other level of elite military we might (please stress "might") have fewer...

A voice of reason and sanity. Thank you so much for this post.

So, let me see if I've got this right, if, after demonstrating/teaching a skill to a student, the student then demonstrating several times in both shallow and deeper confined water that he/she has mastered the skill (by performing the skill flawlessly with no perceptible difficulty several...

Sorry about that LeeAnn, I thought I had replied and quoted the person who posted #181, Bubbletrubble. My original post (#168) was about the condemnation of the instructor by some of those people participating in this thread. I found it senseless to declare that the instructor must have done...

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised (although I am) that someone would immediately call into question MY thoroughness and qualifications as an instructor when presenting a simple scenario about control. When I conduct my confined water training sessions, I start in three feet of water. Every...

Speaking as an instructor with over 30 years of diving experience I can state quite firmly from personal experience that you cannot always control everything even if you can see it happening and take immediate steps to remedy a situation. Fortunately for me the event I could not control took...

I am a PSI certified tank inspector. According to our instructor (the founder of PSI) the routine of turning the valve back a quarter of a turn (or so) stems from the old valves that did occasionally get stuck in the wide open position. It is true that this is not a problem these days with...

Walter makes some accurate and interesting points. As an independent instructor I'm most often faced with those who are shopping on price alone, on the assumption that all shops/instructors/agencies are the same. I think it safe to state that for the beginning open water diver, he/she may not...

1. Instructor with: L.A. County, NAUI, PADI, CMAS, HSA (we say "certification") 2. USA 3. varies 4. several times per month

I am listed as a new member even though I have been a member since 2007. I am also a multi-agency instructor and would like my screen name to reflect something other than new member. How may I accomplish this please?

Ken Kurtis is a extremely experienced instructor, a well recognized expert witness and a consultant to the coroner's office on scuba related incidents.

I couldn't agree more with Ken and MB William, there is a line between experience and complacence, fuzzy at best. I believe I can speak for virtually all divers when I say that we have all probably done something stupid at one time or another. Sometimes stupid or inattentive kills, mostly not...

I can simply heartily recommend the L.A. County Advanced Diver Program to any diver who wants to gain the experience and skills to and be able to handle virtually any situation the he/she might encounter in California waters. Please go to the LACountyScuba dot com website for a full description...

Hi All, I registered over a year ago but hadn't been back. I'm a Los Angeles based instructor, L.A. County, NAUI, PADI, YMCA and Handicapped Scuba Assoc. of America. I mainly teach privately at a very nice athletic club in downtown L.A. but I will teach small (four person) classes as well. Talk...