Rental gear Stinks!! And potential new buddy?

[Kettle]

I need to get better at reading the title of threads, I was all excited waiting to learn how your dry suit had sunk and if you managed to recover it.

 

[dcsdiving]

Snowbear once bubbled...

most PADI instructors teach skills while kneeling on the bottom....

yeah, that's a problem with the skills part of open water checkouts. I have no idea how it's done in warm water with good vis, but here in the puget sound, we (me and other instructors i know) plant the students on the bottom so we can find them in the murk. also, if a student is neutral and floating a little bit, they tend to thrash around causing even more silt out. being slightly negative myself also helps me control a student if they bolt for any reason.

Once we begin the tour part, then we focus on good bouyancy, and i differentiate the artificial (skills) part of the dive from the other part (tour) so my students know why i do things differently in different situations.

I'm surprised that you got yelled at. i want my DM's to have great bouyancy skills.

 

[regtech17]

Im a seasoned diver and associated with padi and it bothers me to hear slurs against the organization. I feel there is good and bad in all things, not just padi. I have dove with people from all walks, padi, acuc, navy divers etc...... It has been my experience that there was good and not so good in all. Judge a person on their diving ability and knowledge not the organization that certified them. I offer this as a suggestion only.

Sincerely,
Steve.

 

[Wingtip]

dcsdiving once bubbled...
here in the puget sound, we (me and other instructors i know) plant the students on the bottom so we can find them in the murk.

Glad I don't dive where you and other instructors you know teach classes. There are plenty of instructors teaching classes neutral in the Puget Sound, no problem transitioning to the "other part" of a dive when you establish neutral buoyancy first.

 

[dcsdiving]

Wingtip once bubbled...


Glad I don't dive where you and other instructors you know teach classes.

well, you might.

i assume you're one of the experienced, neutral instructors, and that visibility, current, control and safety are no problem for you.

it's always good to have a free, rancor free discussion on the web.

thanks for your constructive input.

 

[Wingtip]

I'm just a diver that found a shop that teaches neutral buoyancy. Visibility through "the murk" isn't a problem when no one is kicking up the bottom, control and safety should be established in the pool. And are you teaching ow in the currents? nice.

 

[dcsdiving]

wing. either you don't dive around here much or you haven't been diving long.

safe diving to you.

cheers.

 

[Wingtip]

I dive around here often and have for many years. You probably haven't seen me due to the siltout.

Thanks, safe diving to you too