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> The way you would go about this is to ask in local diving clubs and > circles, check with the agency, perhaps call the local police to see > if he has any criminal record. Let's look at these one at a time. Good analysis Carl. But, you left out the one that I personally use. Go directly to the instructor in question, and ask him questions that you already know the answer to. Compare them. Someone who is interested in taking a trimix class should not be completly ignorant of techdiving and techdiving issues. Or, if they are completly ignorant, there are two options. 1. Ask why the instructor does X. Any instructor I would trust, would be able to give me a rational explination for why they did X. X may not be the best way to do things, but if they thought it out, and decided on X, then at least they are thinking things through. If they can't give reasons why, then I wouldn't take a course with them. 2. Ask unreleated questions. I have a series of questions to ask a potential doctor, when I am considering a new doctor. They are unreleated to medicine. I don't know enough to judge a doctor on those grounds. But, in other matters that I do know enough about, I can test the instructor. In both of these methods, they won't guarantee I find a good instructor. But, it is the best I can do. And again, even though I will check out my instructors, and I expect my students to check me out, I do not feel it is the students legal responsibility to do so. Oh, and as another method, I would ask for advice from someone I trusted. That is always a good way to find a good instructor, doctor, resturant, whatever. > I'd like to see a list of instructors names who > have been sanctioned by IANTD. I'd also like to see a list > of instructors that have had students DIE during a > class with them. Hmmmm, I would like to see that list too. Regards, Andrew Drapp -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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