There is a difference between perfect bouyancy control and "crashing" down on the bottom. Yeah, students aren't going to nail it on dive 1 for a number of reasons. Are they going to stay off the bottom....probably 99% of the time. Anyone we feel isn't comfortable or able to control their bouyancy doesn't pass and we get to do some more work in the pool before we go back to checking out.
I never mentioned graduates were perfect....you seem to be convinced that bouyancy control is beyond the scope of a BOW class.
And as for AOW....is this where you are supposed to learn bouyancy control...why did you pay for BOW then??? Do you teach this before or after the deep dive??? We teach navigation, night, boat, deep, and experience in our AOW class....to earn a cert, you have to log 400 mins bottom time.
oh yeah, one last thing....65 degrees is a damn cold pool, I'd find another one if I were you.
I never mentioned graduates were perfect....you seem to be convinced that bouyancy control is beyond the scope of a BOW class.
And as for AOW....is this where you are supposed to learn bouyancy control...why did you pay for BOW then??? Do you teach this before or after the deep dive??? We teach navigation, night, boat, deep, and experience in our AOW class....to earn a cert, you have to log 400 mins bottom time.
oh yeah, one last thing....65 degrees is a damn cold pool, I'd find another one if I were you.