cornfed
Mindless lemming
So is *every* real estate agent, what's your point?
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So is *every* real estate agent, what's your point?
cornfed
Mindless lemming
Like what playing darts or watching people make left turns?
cornfed
Mindless lemming
Rule number one (no not that rule one) of the Karl_in_Calif Memorial Ad Hominem Society is: "Don't use dictionaries to help with your posts"
Option one : Without a doubt, type it out!
cornfed
Mindless lemming
This is a very interesting thread. First we have an ad hominem.
Followed by a counter ad hominem.
Very interesting, indeed.
cornfed
Mindless lemming
This might be the most useful piece of information in this thread!
Tibbs
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The GUE instructor I know who teaches Tech 1 went to an ITC (instructor training course), interned on 2 courses, led a course whilst being assessed, has to demonstrate thet he is diving regularly to the standard that he is teaching and is reassessed every three years.
The TDI instructor I know received a phone call after he passed his Trimix course "Send me a cheque for £20 and we'll send you a trimix instructor's ticket"
Can you spot the difference?
Chris
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Since the UK only has one GUE instructor, I don't think a random sample of 1 is very helpful one way or another - if the figures on the gue website are accurate, he isn't actually _ that_ experienced in gas diving comparatively speaking anyway -especially if you take caves out of the equation.
TDI probably does have it's share of inexperienced and/or poor instructors - however it also has it's share of very experienced and good instructors - if you spend any time talking a course through with an instructor, it'll become apparant fairly early on how much experience actually _in_ the water they have.
What you need is an instructor that has been around long enough to have already seen every possible CF you could contemplate making beforehand, and hopefully to be able to pre-empt a student making them - a good instructor will probably have been around in one way or another longer than gue have been in existance.
TDI probably does have it's share of inexperienced and/or poor instructors - however it also has it's share of very experienced and good instructors - if you spend any time talking a course through with an instructor, it'll become apparant fairly early on how much experience actually _in_ the water they have.
What you need is an instructor that has been around long enough to have already seen every possible CF you could contemplate making beforehand, and hopefully to be able to pre-empt a student making them - a good instructor will probably have been around in one way or another longer than gue have been in existance.
Hmmm ... I do not know anything about TDI. However, after that crazy statement I had to find out if what you said is true. Apparently, it is not. Click the following link to find out what it takes to be an Entry Level Trimix Instructor for TDI:
http://www.divetekadventures.com/Classes/InstructionInstructorTrimixEL.htm
It takes significantly more than you indicated!
The usual misquotes and bad assumptions, I should have know better
I never said that you had to be GUE trained to be good.
I never said that only GUE instructors are good.
Given the reactions from almost all divers that have taken the DIRF class (paraphrased: Oh my gawd, I thought I was a good diver but he DIRF showed me otherwise!) it appears that most are ill-equipped to determine if an instructor is good or not. This was true of me, too.
These are the facts, deal with them; ranting doesnt change them.
Roak
I never said that you had to be GUE trained to be good.
I never said that only GUE instructors are good.
Given the reactions from almost all divers that have taken the DIRF class (paraphrased: Oh my gawd, I thought I was a good diver but he DIRF showed me otherwise!) it appears that most are ill-equipped to determine if an instructor is good or not. This was true of me, too.
These are the facts, deal with them; ranting doesnt change them.
Roak
Just out of curiousity ... what are the facts again? All that I have seen so far is opinion and speculation. Sorry, I had to ask.
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