lermontov
Contributor
I've had two technical instructors that had not paid their agency dues / insurance. When skills had been demonstrated - they were unable to issue cards. One issue was resolved in a month. The other issue took over a year.
I had a Divecon course that was never completed. The owner of the shop refused to complete the course when I chose to dive outside of his mine on my own time. (His staff are only permitted to dive in his mine exclusively - or by permission elsewhere...)
I had an AOW course where me and my classmate / dive-buddy where doing our Navigation Adventure Dive - and lost the instructor - who couldn't keep up with us in his drysuit / split fins. Each of us had 6 dives logged (inluding our OW Training dives) - and were swimming unsupervised in an overhead environment (mine). After 40 minutes of wandering around the mine (lost) - we managed to surface safely and found the instructor on the surface terrified. As an instructor myself now - I cringe when I think about it.
The vast majority of my training, however, has been professionally delivered.
that is really bizarre