barc802
Contributor
I am the instructor that had my Student pushed off the platform.
Some of the facts are not accurate, probably because I did not explain them clearly the other day. To Clarify. We were passing through on our way back to the accent line. There was a that we passed, there were a bunch of divers around the area. I lead my 2 students around the platform, one followed me and one cut across the non-occupied side of the platform. He lost visual contact of me for a second and paused on the platform in a kneeling position. I turned an saw him do this, at that point just a few seconds after he paused, an instructor who was with 1 student on the other side of the platform swam over, about 6 feet, and shoved my student off the platform. My student who was now really confused stopped and tried no to leave the "safety" of the platform. Witnessing the this entire action that was less than 10 seconds I grabbed my student by the shoulder strap and pulled him off the platform and away from rest of the divers. My second student witnessing the entire thing accented about 10 feet to get away from the situation. We then continued on to the accent line making our safety stop and accenting to the surface.
I do not have a 100% id on the offending instructor although I know who he works for. They were still in the water when I was time for use to leave and being a some what of a hot head I decided to leave and talk it over with my shop owner later in the day.
Some of the facts are not accurate, probably because I did not explain them clearly the other day. To Clarify. We were passing through on our way back to the accent line. There was a that we passed, there were a bunch of divers around the area. I lead my 2 students around the platform, one followed me and one cut across the non-occupied side of the platform. He lost visual contact of me for a second and paused on the platform in a kneeling position. I turned an saw him do this, at that point just a few seconds after he paused, an instructor who was with 1 student on the other side of the platform swam over, about 6 feet, and shoved my student off the platform. My student who was now really confused stopped and tried no to leave the "safety" of the platform. Witnessing the this entire action that was less than 10 seconds I grabbed my student by the shoulder strap and pulled him off the platform and away from rest of the divers. My second student witnessing the entire thing accented about 10 feet to get away from the situation. We then continued on to the accent line making our safety stop and accenting to the surface.
I do not have a 100% id on the offending instructor although I know who he works for. They were still in the water when I was time for use to leave and being a some what of a hot head I decided to leave and talk it over with my shop owner later in the day.