During a DEMA meeting at Beneath the Sea, I had the pleasure of being in a focus group with Pierre-Yves Cousteau, the youngest son of Jacques Cousteau. In discussing the diving industry as we approach the year 2020, diver training was universally thought to have poor standards and poor quality at both diver and instructor levels. Pierre remarked that his father would have disapproved of how complicated learning to dive has become and how he perhaps would have seen the buoyancy compensator as being taught inappropriately as a way of circumventing important swimming and freediving skills.
I'm going to discuss the buoyancy compensator in detail in another thread. However, I would like to know where divers in ScubaBoard assess their swimming abilities since swimming is a prerequisite for scuba training. Please answer the poll as honestly as you can. To that end, I'm going to attempt to provide a way of gauging swimming capabilities. Choose the answer that best matches your ability.
Special instructions for instructors and DM's: Assess your abilities in relation to the world of swimming, not passing scuba swimming standards for any level of diver or dive pro training.
Thank you.
I'm going to discuss the buoyancy compensator in detail in another thread. However, I would like to know where divers in ScubaBoard assess their swimming abilities since swimming is a prerequisite for scuba training. Please answer the poll as honestly as you can. To that end, I'm going to attempt to provide a way of gauging swimming capabilities. Choose the answer that best matches your ability.
Special instructions for instructors and DM's: Assess your abilities in relation to the world of swimming, not passing scuba swimming standards for any level of diver or dive pro training.
Thank you.