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I am launching a program for Non-divers at Resorts on Singer Island....the Tooka diving at BHB.
We need instructors to do 20 minute long tours, after a ten minute walk-through/speech/intro, etc..This is kind of like a Discover Scuba session, but exponentially better.
As you know from teaching Open water students, many will not learn bouyancy even after 20 dives...Witht he tooka, they don't need to learn bouyancy, they just need to learn how to breathe through the reg, and to remember to exhale on ascents...They should know how to swim, or YOU will be pulling them, and doing more work than you will want
See the video ‪Tooka Demo - short‬‏ - YouTube This is now playing in the lobby of the Hilton, and will soon be a the other major Resorts on the Island. You put enough weight on the non-divers, to make them about 1/2 pound positive, so that if they stop swimming down, they slowly float up. max depth is controlled both by where you take them in BHB ( typically less than 12 feet) and by how much hose we use. Their is a system on the Tooka Raft itself, that lets you instantly change weighting of a non-diver student, with them holding on to the handles on the side of the raft, so that they remain comfortable, while you tweak things.
You take out 2 to 3 people on the Tooka at a time, and the hose keeps them within 10 feet of each other, so it does a great job of herding....You can assist forward swimming any time you want, by pulling on the hose ( which clips to their weight belt). I have taken some non-divers around 2 hours before high tide ( I want this hotel service to be slack tide only when the current is ripping, and used my swimming to do 100% of the propulsion needed to get around--as they did not really swim well.
If you are interested, PM or email dan@sfdj.com with your interest.... You would get close to $50 per person, and we can schedule 2 groups of three per high tide. We have a dive shop this will go out from. We need additional instructors that can be placed on a schedule, for when people reserve tooka dives at BHB.
p.s.
Unlike the new OW classes at the bridge, this is controlled in many ways, to have zero bad effect on the BHB ecosystem when compared to new divers in general.... Bouyancy has them floating up, not crashing to bottom. Feet will always be pointed up, so they cant silt. an instructor actualy dictates where they go. There are at most 3 divers to one instructor--a class size easy to keep from doing damage We also have a few places to do this besides just the BHB.
We need instructors to do 20 minute long tours, after a ten minute walk-through/speech/intro, etc..This is kind of like a Discover Scuba session, but exponentially better.
As you know from teaching Open water students, many will not learn bouyancy even after 20 dives...Witht he tooka, they don't need to learn bouyancy, they just need to learn how to breathe through the reg, and to remember to exhale on ascents...They should know how to swim, or YOU will be pulling them, and doing more work than you will want
See the video ‪Tooka Demo - short‬‏ - YouTube This is now playing in the lobby of the Hilton, and will soon be a the other major Resorts on the Island. You put enough weight on the non-divers, to make them about 1/2 pound positive, so that if they stop swimming down, they slowly float up. max depth is controlled both by where you take them in BHB ( typically less than 12 feet) and by how much hose we use. Their is a system on the Tooka Raft itself, that lets you instantly change weighting of a non-diver student, with them holding on to the handles on the side of the raft, so that they remain comfortable, while you tweak things.
You take out 2 to 3 people on the Tooka at a time, and the hose keeps them within 10 feet of each other, so it does a great job of herding....You can assist forward swimming any time you want, by pulling on the hose ( which clips to their weight belt). I have taken some non-divers around 2 hours before high tide ( I want this hotel service to be slack tide only when the current is ripping, and used my swimming to do 100% of the propulsion needed to get around--as they did not really swim well.
If you are interested, PM or email dan@sfdj.com with your interest.... You would get close to $50 per person, and we can schedule 2 groups of three per high tide. We have a dive shop this will go out from. We need additional instructors that can be placed on a schedule, for when people reserve tooka dives at BHB.
p.s.
Unlike the new OW classes at the bridge, this is controlled in many ways, to have zero bad effect on the BHB ecosystem when compared to new divers in general.... Bouyancy has them floating up, not crashing to bottom. Feet will always be pointed up, so they cant silt. an instructor actualy dictates where they go. There are at most 3 divers to one instructor--a class size easy to keep from doing damage We also have a few places to do this besides just the BHB.