swim93
New
Hi all.
I've just started as a new Divemaster trainee and had a few questions.
I'm aware part of a dive masters role is to assist with gear, carry tanks etc. However I was helping out with an open water course recently and the instructor made me carry every single tank personally (around 10 tanks repeatedly) and not once lifted one himself or got students to assist. I was not being paid to help. He also didn't thank me for my help/time afterwards. Is this normal?
On the same course, a student had problems with balance during her first open water descent, and signalled to come up.
At the surface she told the instructor about her problems, to which he responded "I don't care! it's just water- if you feel you are tipping one way just go with it, let's go back down"
After that statement she no longer wanted to descend at all and decided scuba diving was 'not for her' - to me it clearly seemed like she didn't feel safe.
Any opinions, thoughts or comments on this much appreciated.
Cheers
I've just started as a new Divemaster trainee and had a few questions.
I'm aware part of a dive masters role is to assist with gear, carry tanks etc. However I was helping out with an open water course recently and the instructor made me carry every single tank personally (around 10 tanks repeatedly) and not once lifted one himself or got students to assist. I was not being paid to help. He also didn't thank me for my help/time afterwards. Is this normal?
On the same course, a student had problems with balance during her first open water descent, and signalled to come up.
At the surface she told the instructor about her problems, to which he responded "I don't care! it's just water- if you feel you are tipping one way just go with it, let's go back down"
After that statement she no longer wanted to descend at all and decided scuba diving was 'not for her' - to me it clearly seemed like she didn't feel safe.
Any opinions, thoughts or comments on this much appreciated.
Cheers