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> In a tech class the instructor has say over how you are configured. Only partly.. I still have to agree. If I show up for a "tech" course and the guy shoves a pair of Beauchat 120 lead-sleds at me, I'll tell him to take a hike. >It is >assumed here that the reason you are taking a tech class is to learn how >to configure and use your gear. I'm there for the skills, the knowledge, and for "tweaking" my gear. After reading these forums for what, 7 years now, I feel like I won't be majorly reconfiguring, more I will be tweaking. And in the past when I have done major reconfigures, such as when I knew I wanted to start my cave class, and knew I would be diving doubles, I did not practice the new gear configs in _class_ ... I called the instuctor ahead of time, asked what the basic configs where, and practiced them on my own ahead of time, in the quarry, in 30' of water. I may seem overly cautious for not trying 5 pieces of new gear on one dive in 150' of water in a cave, but hell I'm young, I've got plenty of time to do it slowly and right... and live to do it another day. What gear config info can one not get off the net nowadays? Doubles, hose routing, stage bottle rigging.... My point is that even though I seek the best instructor, I try to be sure I can survive the worst instructor. >Why do you make the assumption here that >the student already knows tech before taking a course in it? Because it is within the reach of most divers to learn quite a bit about a course before they take it. Especially those already certified at AOW level and looking at the "tech" courses. This is not to relieve bad instructors from blame, but to insist that I refuse to be the helpless idiot diver that you insist I must be when I take a class and am temporarily a "student" (actually I am always a student). Sorry I refuse to turn my brain off. I'd like to think I still play a part in my life decisions. You guys take this argument to such extreme that you seem to say a competent student can never overcome an incompetent instructor. This is the logical conclusion if it is always the complete fault of the instructor every-single-time something happens. Mike -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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