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william i couldn't agree with that statement more. the point is that the training agency has the responsibility of determining the teaching quality at the time of the instructor certification. if they fail there then there is a flaw in there system & that needs to be addressed. i have felt for quite some time that the move to push people through programs just to get the next cert without gaining experience at the level they achieve for a "few "dives has created some problems. what seems to happen many time is that the cert buff gets enough certifications to then step up into an instructor or tech program. hank In a message dated 98-03-05 10:53:43 EST, you write: << i agree with you, Hank... but i also think that teaching is a skill and a calling in and of itself. just as there are instructors who have not nearly enough experience to teach effectively...there are also "good" divers who've been at it for 20+ years but who haven't CHANGED or learned much for the last 10. a good instructor, at any level, is up on all the latest techniques and is constantly learning and adapting and passing that on to his students. not every experienced diver who can take care of himSELF makes for an effective instructor. best, w ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <wwittman@we*.co*> Received: from relay25.mail.aol.com (relay25.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.25]) by air29.mail.aol.com (v40.2) with SMTP; Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:53:36 -0500 Received: from westnet.com (westnet.com [206.24.6.2]) by relay25.mail.aol.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id KAA04866 for <GarlooEnt@ao*.co*>; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:53:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from [206.28.203.19] (port13.ts2.westnet.com [206.28.203.13]) by westnet.com (8.8.6/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA25223; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:53:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <v01540b06b12477215151@[206.28.203.19]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:55:56 -0500 To: GarlooEnt <GarlooEnt@ao*.co*> From: wwittman@we*.co* (w wittman) Subject: Re: Fw: Divers Supply, IANTD, Tom Mount and tragic technical diving Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com, wreckdiver@wr*.co* >> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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