Biggest thing killing dive shops?

[Edward3c]

Has anyone ever thought of floating a "dive boat", no engine, in a quarry so students can learn to dive off a boat?

One club I belonged to places it’s RHIB on the local lake at the start of the diving season so new divers get used to entering and exiting the water from a RHIB.

 

[Wookie]

Can't, won't, or don't wanna? My better half is perfectly capable of assembling her gear, doing a basic shore dive on Bonaire and navigating back to the buoy. Yet she always frets and is nervous for the first two or three days of the trip. And we are strictly vacation divers.

Relativity, Uncertainty, Incompleteness, Undecidability: choose any four. Or, argue for your imitations and they shall certainly be yours.

And I'm not pointing fingers, but if you're going on dive trips to bonaire, you are probably beyond what most vacation divers are. Of course, in the freedom of the teens to self-identify, you can be anything you'd like...

 

[DevonDiver]

Plenty enough novice divers nowadays choose to IDENTIFY as serious, or technical, divers.

Apparently, who are we to dispute that?

 

[Wookie]

Plenty enough novice divers nowadays choose to IDENTIFY as serious, or technical, divers.

Apparently, who are we to dispute that?

As operators, it's nice to know what we have to look forward to. As pros, apparently it makes us part of the Bourgeois elite to judge....

 

[Dogbowl]

I would like to remind the pros on here that potential students might use this forum to “interview” prospective instructors. Just sayin’.

I’m seeing a lot of negativity, disillusionment, slotting divers into categories and “us” vs “them”. Not very conducive to a happy learning environment, me thinks.

 

[Trace Malinowski]

One club I belonged to places it’s RHIB on the local lake at the start of the diving season so new divers get used to entering and exiting the water from a RHIB.

Then, when dive season starts, the Brits launch RHIBS from Porthkerris and dive sites 30 miles out to sea for a "quick" dive. Of course, they also pronounce Mousehole as "Mowzel." RHIBS in England go where 60 foot crew boats go in the USA. One of my favorite stories in Diver (UK) was about two female secretaries who decided to holiday in the middle of a border war in Africa and dive a lake populated with hippos. "Recreational" diving in the UK takes on a whole new meaning.

 

[Trace Malinowski]

I would like to remind the pros on here that potential students might use this forum to “interview” prospective instructors. Just sayin’.

I’m seeing a lot of negativity, disillusionment, slotting divers into categories and “us” vs “them”. Not very conducive to a happy learning environment, me thinks.

We know.

 

[DevonDiver]

I would like to remind the pros on here that potential students might use this forum to “interview” prospective instructors. Just sayin’.

I’m seeing a lot of negativity, disillusionment, slotting divers into categories and “us” vs “them”. Not very conducive to a happy learning environment, me thinks.

I can wear a clown suit for an extra $5 a day. I also ensure a 'safe space' is always available for my students if they need it.

 

[Dogbowl]

I can wear a clown suit for an extra $5 a day. I also ensure a 'safe space' is always available for my students if they need it.

You cannot tell tone very well online. Taunting or making fun of a potential student is the perfect way to turn them off. Congratulations on being part of the problem in the diving industry. Wow, just wow!

Just because you’re in the Philippines doesn’t mean I wouldn’t consider flying there to take a sidemount course with you when I’m ready, cause I’m sure you’re very technically qualified to do a very good job.

 

[runsongas]

It takes 25 jumps for a sport parachutist to get off student status, and I don't think many people are sewing parachutes in their lawn. So I'm not sure that is a reasonable extrapolation.

Have you not seen the AFF solo freefall being pushed so that you can get certified in only 7 jumps? The USPA cert numbers are very low in comparison to scuba, so shops are actively trying to get skydiving to the masses beyond the tandem bucket list jumps by cutting the cost and time involved with certification there too.