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From what I have experienced and witnessed is students Who take the Cavern/Intro Course and are already used to doubles are at this point Apprentice Level divers (Instructors Discretion) I believe that this really comes down to the Instructor sceening and evaluating the diver I have seen divers take C/I and were ready for an Apprentice card. and I have seen myself show up for a Full Cave course Not ready by virtue of needing 70 or more dives and having poor skills. Some Instructors are liberal, and some just dont care they just want to crank out a cert. and a few Expect you to be READY. They demand the best from their Students, and they give their students thir best in return. At 07:19 PM 2/2/99 -0500, you wrote: >I think it's a mistake to be taught the way described below. People should be comfortable in doubles even before they hit the water for cave classes. You probably won't learn much about cave diving if your trying to get the feel for new equipment. (Especially converting over to doubles) We need some serious changes made. > > >Brian Fairbanks >I pity the guys who show up for full cave and > have to totally convert from OW singles gear. Too many new > things all at once. Remove some of the variables on your own time, > ahead of the class. > Best of luck, > Mike > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT color=#000080 face=Fixedsys size=2>I think it's a mistake to be >taught the way described below. People should be comfortable in doubles >even before they hit the water for cave classes. You probably won't learn >much about cave diving if your trying to get the feel for new equipment. >(Especially converting over to doubles) We need some serious changes >made.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000080 face=Fixedsys size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000080 face=Fixedsys size=2>Brian Fairbanks</FONT></DIV> ><BLOCKQUOTE >style="BORDER-LEFT: #000080 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I > pity the guys who show up for full cave and<BR>have to totally convert from > OW singles gear. Too many new<BR>things all at once. Remove some > of the variables on your own time,<BR>ahead of the class. <BR>Best of > luck,<BR>Mike<BR> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> >
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