live_2_dive
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My LDS makes rescue almost a year long course. Some of them are pretty snobby about how the course is so much better than what is offered elsewhere simply because it takes so long. They run a few pool/classroom sessions, have the rescue divers in training help out in the pool with OW students, have them help out with OW students on their OW weekends... etc. Then at the end of the summer, after participating in club dives and running a few scenarios they finally get signed off as rescue divers.
Has anyone else experienced this? It seems like overkill to me (more free labour for the LDS) but due to the dive shop politics I haven't gone into it too much.
that sounds more like a DM course than a Rescue course; that being said, (if I were to be in that course) I would welcome the extra experience...I feel that any experience is good experience (or at least something good can be learned from every experience)
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