LuvDaOcean
Guest
I've finished my PADI classes and pool sessions and am now ready for my ow check-out dives. I have a trip booked to the FL Keys for my son and myself at the end of next week as referral students.
Here's the deal: I did very well during classroom sessions and completed all written reviews including the final exam without much trouble at all. Both the 1st & 2nd pool sessions were basically "monkey-see, monkey-do" sessions and very, very rushed due to the size of the class (9 students). 2nd pool session did not go well at all because I was having a lot of trouble equalizing (sinuses were clogged) and was not properly weighted by the instructor until the absolute tail-end of the session, so skills that night were really, really sloppy and I don't feel I fully grasped them at all.
I guess my questions for all of you who did your OW check-out dives via Referral are these:
1) Did you feel that your classes/pool sessions were "monkey-see, monkey-do" and that you were not really ~fully~ aware of why you were doing the skills you were doing?
2) Did you learn everything in your PADI classes/pool sessions that was in the book and on the videos/dvd/cd roms? (e.g., we weren't taught how to use a compass in class, but were going to be taught on 1st day of OW dive along with a few other things like that)
3) When you finally got to the "other" end (referral location) did the instructor there teach the skills differently than your original instructior or did you find them to be almost identical to what you learned in class/pool sessions back home?
4) Did you have to take an additional written test?
Thanks so much for preparing us with whatever info you can provide!
Here's the deal: I did very well during classroom sessions and completed all written reviews including the final exam without much trouble at all. Both the 1st & 2nd pool sessions were basically "monkey-see, monkey-do" sessions and very, very rushed due to the size of the class (9 students). 2nd pool session did not go well at all because I was having a lot of trouble equalizing (sinuses were clogged) and was not properly weighted by the instructor until the absolute tail-end of the session, so skills that night were really, really sloppy and I don't feel I fully grasped them at all.
I guess my questions for all of you who did your OW check-out dives via Referral are these:
1) Did you feel that your classes/pool sessions were "monkey-see, monkey-do" and that you were not really ~fully~ aware of why you were doing the skills you were doing?
2) Did you learn everything in your PADI classes/pool sessions that was in the book and on the videos/dvd/cd roms? (e.g., we weren't taught how to use a compass in class, but were going to be taught on 1st day of OW dive along with a few other things like that)
3) When you finally got to the "other" end (referral location) did the instructor there teach the skills differently than your original instructior or did you find them to be almost identical to what you learned in class/pool sessions back home?
4) Did you have to take an additional written test?
Thanks so much for preparing us with whatever info you can provide!