Alright. Here's a post I intend to be based on real conversation I had 3 weeks ago while traveling in Belize:
---Not me---
Recreational dive instructor in a warm water environment, age 45, top shape. Diving 30 years, guiding 25 and instructing (mainly OW students and DSDs) for 20 years. Will slung a pony and go to 200ft without hesitation as he use to commercially fish to supplement his tourist income. No formal training beyond his OWSI instruction two decades ago.
He is hoping the tourism market
will support tec diving in his area and wants to be the first before he gets too old.
He asked me how he could become a good tec instructor the most efficient way possible. His income goes to putting his daughter through med school. Time off work and time away from his younger children is costly.
1. How would you advice him to progress in his training?
2. What should his relationship be to minimum agency standards?
3. What additional benchmarks need to be in place he may not be aware of from reading agency promotional material?
4. How many months away is he realistically from his goal? Assuming his funds hold out and he can dedicate the time needed.
5. What would you need to know about his training before you'd trust a loved one into his instructional care as a tec diver?
I only had 5 hours with him, he seems a skilled and clever OW instructor who synthesized the new info I presented keenly. Calm, humorous and methodical in his demeanour.
Cameron
---Not me---
Recreational dive instructor in a warm water environment, age 45, top shape. Diving 30 years, guiding 25 and instructing (mainly OW students and DSDs) for 20 years. Will slung a pony and go to 200ft without hesitation as he use to commercially fish to supplement his tourist income. No formal training beyond his OWSI instruction two decades ago.
He is hoping the tourism market
will support tec diving in his area and wants to be the first before he gets too old.
He asked me how he could become a good tec instructor the most efficient way possible. His income goes to putting his daughter through med school. Time off work and time away from his younger children is costly.
1. How would you advice him to progress in his training?
2. What should his relationship be to minimum agency standards?
3. What additional benchmarks need to be in place he may not be aware of from reading agency promotional material?
4. How many months away is he realistically from his goal? Assuming his funds hold out and he can dedicate the time needed.
5. What would you need to know about his training before you'd trust a loved one into his instructional care as a tec diver?
I only had 5 hours with him, he seems a skilled and clever OW instructor who synthesized the new info I presented keenly. Calm, humorous and methodical in his demeanour.
Cameron