fisherdvm
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We live in a "blame" society. I guess I just see that eventually, some certified divers somewhere will blame the instructor for not having taught him/her to clear a mask, use a standard BC, or how to use a weight belt. And so he/she got in trouble when borrowed one or used one somewhere. There are methods where weight belts should be ditched and donned, and how're you going to learn this if you were not taught to use one?
In the same way, as one progress to instructor status, wouldn't you want to be confident in standard gear configuration anyhow?
I guess I would rather be trained to drive a manual transmission, than an automatic. Cause it is alot easier to go from one to the other, than vice versa.
But we are getting a good mix of response to these issues. So that's why the discussion was started. I guess if it were up to me, dry snorkel and snorkels with purge valves should also be banned.
Again, I started my post with "In my opinion". Not trying to boss no one around here. How the heck you can get some of those integrated weight pocket back is beyond me under water. Some of them are so hard to reinsert even on DRY land.
In the same way, as one progress to instructor status, wouldn't you want to be confident in standard gear configuration anyhow?
I guess I would rather be trained to drive a manual transmission, than an automatic. Cause it is alot easier to go from one to the other, than vice versa.
But we are getting a good mix of response to these issues. So that's why the discussion was started. I guess if it were up to me, dry snorkel and snorkels with purge valves should also be banned.
Again, I started my post with "In my opinion". Not trying to boss no one around here. How the heck you can get some of those integrated weight pocket back is beyond me under water. Some of them are so hard to reinsert even on DRY land.