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greg somers
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No wherenear as many as I like. I suppose that's why I like dive holidays. I take a lower qualification card and stay incognito. Everyday in the water is better than a day at the office, but there is alot to do and keep an eye on when guiding and teaching, especially if you are trying to ensure the satisfaction of clients and turn them into regular customers. Some classes are great, and others seem more like hard work. I love to share my passion, so that helps.
Cheers all ears,
The one and only,
Gasman
Cheers all ears,
The one and only,
Gasman
My teaching career has gone through a number of phases. As a new instructor, living int he West Pacific, I made a living teaching diving, which was an easy transition, as I had spent the previous year as a professional divemaster. Upon moving back to the states, I went to work as a contract instructor for a LDS that required us to "bid" for specific contract schedules. I ended up spending the next 2.5 years working 40 hours M-F and teaching all day on the weekends. Luckily my (then) so was also an instructor, and we "team taught" exclusively (a method I highly recommend). It was pretty hard to find time to dive for fun inthose days, and we made a lot of late night dives. I got burned ou on that pretty quickly, and for the last 5 years or so I have only taught very specific specialties and I am lucky inthat I am the only Instructor at my LDS teaching cavern, trimix and associated stuff, so it's pretty easy for me to pick and choose when I want to teach and how. Consequently, I dive more for fun now than I do for work, and I think I am a better instructor because of it.
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.........unidirectional aquatic performance 101.
I tend to teach diving mostly in the summer, and fun dive mostly in the winter. i travel a bit in the summer to dive destinations to fun dive.
I probably fun dive more than i teach, now mind you i make all my teaching dives fun dives.
on an other note.....who logs their teaching dives...i personaly don't count them or log them as dives
I probably fun dive more than i teach, now mind you i make all my teaching dives fun dives.
on an other note.....who logs their teaching dives...i personaly don't count them or log them as dives
I guess about 15-20% fun dives.
all dives are fun - but since I got my AI almost 2 years ago I have not dragged any students around!!
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