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My instructor asked me how long I would look for a lost buddy. I thought about
it, trying to immagine the situation, and then he said," what do you think that
extra third of gas is for", and then I knew the answer.
Now I run the WKPP, and do the heavy dives - what do this instructor's
students
do?
Many of us were trained by Parker Turner, and he was trained by Frank Martz,
who broke Rule Number One about twenty six years ago, and then Turner was
retrained by Bill Gavin who was trained by Tex Chaulkley. I do not know who
trained Bill Main, but he and Gavin have helped train most of our people, and
Jarrod and I have taken up where they left off.
Here is the interesting thing : Lloyd Bailey and Parker are tied for having
trained the most number of our lead divers at 3 apiece, Gerrard has one, and
Bill Dooley has one. In the long range gas diver category , which means guys
who
do dives bigger than anything ever done outside of WKPP, Tom Mount has two of
ours, Lamar Hires has two, Paul Heinreth has one, Milledge Murphy has one,
LLoyd
has a couple, I am not sure who did the others, but of the guys coming up the
ranks, JJ has done almost all of them, or Tyler Moon.
I trained the guys to do the exploration dives, other than the ones who
already knew, like Irving, and we all teach the group. We do the gas training.
I do the ongoing training as we learn more things.
What we are seeing is more and more people who come to us already off to a
good start, and very few with the bad attitudes which we find dangerous.
However, a few years ago I was pulling my hair out with some of what came to
us,
and even though the above mentioned instructors have seen the changes I made to
turn their boys into world class divers, they continue to fight it, except for
Mount and Bailey, and the ones who retired.
If you are taking dive instruction - ask to learn it the right way, and
save yorself the aggrivation. Just ask how the pros do it.
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, <chance@sn*.ne*> wrote:
>Mr InStroketer,
>
>Todd described the ultimate ignorant instructor but didn't know who
>it was - you took the mystery out of it. Thank you.
>Could you post a list of your students here so that we will know who
>not to dive with? Or, never mind, they'll be easy to spot I'm sure.
>
>Seriously though, your "all for me - none for you" attitude has no
>place in diving. None. Ask yourself...would you want to dive with
>somebody that follows the same thought process as you? Or would you
>rather dive with somebody that you know you could depend on?
>
>Again, thanks for identifying yourself. Makes avoiding you easier.
>
>Mitch
>
>
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>
George M. Irvine III
DIR WKPP
1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316
954-493-6655 FAX 6698
Email gmiiii@in*.co*
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