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Just imagine that:brain:! :D

Let me say that I entirely agree with you that everything improves by more experience. If you read my response closely you'll see that is exactly my point - leading dives, like any other skill, improves with experience. Buoyancy should not be problematic anymore when an instructor signs off a DM...

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I agree with you in that I also do not like the idea of a DM running from OW to DM in 2 months flat with no experience. But then it depends on what they do in those two months and where they do it. My DM students are drilled on their own diving and rescue skills in preparation for their IDC...

29 and wife is 31. Anybody got an average worked out yet?

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I don't know much about the artificial reef programs myself but I think you might find the following links interesting with perhaps more information on the topic. http://www.artificialreef.bc.ca/...

This is one of the most satisfying things for me in training students. It's like looking back at my own struggles as I learnt to dive. It humbles me in knowing that we're all always learning and that we never "arrive" and become dive gods/godesses who know everything and can do everything. If...

If the DM student has successfully demonstrated mastery of the required skills during the DM course and has successfully shown that their skills are fully up to standard with the requirements for the certification level why should he/she not be allowed to qualify for the certification? It is...

I have been certified with PADI throughout all my diving courses. My wife was justing completing her 2-star and nitrox course with a CMAS club at the University she was busy doing her master's degree at the time, when I met her (from outside the diving circles we both frequented). Her instructor...

PADI follows a very stringent quality control process to ensure that Instructors keep in line with the standards and procedures. Students are often randomly contacted for Total Quality Assurance (TQA) interviews after a new Instructor has been certified - just to make sure that he/she is putting...

I hear you Nut Bubblefish. My sentiments exactly also :coffee:

Being diabetic may have been the cause or contributor to the injuries your patients suffered but let us be clear here: you get responsible diabetics and you get those that are irresponsible. The responsible ones pay serious attention to their glucometer readings, take readings regularly...

Lots of very good advice here already so I am not going to restate the same again. Best I can say is take it slow and very easy until you are 201% about your control; keep the hypo supplies close at all times; make very sure that whatever medication you take with you stays cool and dry...etc...

My wife is my regular buddy. Both of us are Instructors and it just helps enormously to have someone (either her or I) backing the other up when training or leading dives. It's like having your own personal DM at the back of the group all the time, and what's even better is that we've done...

What questions do you have about it? My wife has Type 1 Diabetes and we manage just fine. :coffee:

This is actualy the precise position my wife and I take when teaching our students also. I have in the past warned certified divers on my trips that if they were to "do that again" they would have successfully bought themselves a "left on the beach" ticket. But mostly, as you said, we found...

We're still getting to know the local dive spots in the area and accompanied a few local divers last weekend on a dive to explore one of the beautiful little coves down at Laguna Beach, CA. To my astonishment one of the divers came up to me with an outstretched hand holding out a beautiful Warty...

I agree with you Tollie, we have found that keeping our students' exercises going by having them work out their predive plans and post dive pressure groups using the tables make things easier to verify that everyone is jumping the hoops right. We spend some time on the OW and again on AOW...

I agree entirely. Both my wife and I dive with Suunto Mosquito and Stinger comp's and we make sure that our students stay either on eyeball level or slightly below one of us on ascents while the other (either her or I) bring up the bottom of the group; the ascent rates are *slower* than one bar...

Hi Ber Rabbit and everyone else; Thank you for the warm greets. Ber, I'll be sure to look you up if ever in your back yard of the country to arrange for us to go blow some bubbles together. I have to apologize to the forum if any confusion might be caused, but I decided to change my handle to...