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Kevin Rottner wrote: > >kevin > >you & steve are absolutely right & one of the tools to fighting ignorance is > >the exposure that it gets on this list. > > Dear Hank: > > I think one of the best things this list could ever do would be to go into > hardcore INSTROKETER-BUSTER mode. But in reality, how many of the people > that need this information even know of the list, let alone subscribe, let > alone read. I would really like to see a website devoted to both WHO is good > and WHO is bad. Honest comments, reports, activities of who's out there and > teaching more advanced diving. > > But its a start. How can I help ? Will someone help me set-up a website or > webpage somewhere that we all can update ?? If you can both immunize me against suit, and propose appropriate mechanisms to ensure fairness (including the natural laws of justice: "no man in his own cause", and "hear the other side"), I would be happy to host such a site. Immunizing me against suit is a simple insurance matter - it will just cost you some money. As an alternative, perhaps we can discuss some guidelines for instructor selection. If we can reach some consensus on these, I would be happy to post them on my website (which has a somewhat wider readership than techdiver), as I am sure would a number of others. As a hopefully noncontroversial kickoff: 1. Instructor should mandate (whether personally or from agency), 132 fsw max END, 1.4 max ppO2 on the bottom, 1.6 max ppO2 on deco. This probably excludes all TDI instructors at this time, since as I read it, they have no way of teaching trimix without a deep (>130fsw) air course prerequisite. 2. The instructor should both look at your logbook, and then sit you down for a quiet chat about your diving, your rationale for diving, why these courses fit in to your diving career. 3. On being asked, they should be prepared to discuss the same, and show you their log books, including when they completed instructor training, and students that they have trained. 4. Class sizes should meet or beat the agency requirements, especially with regard to instructor student ratio in the water. Instructor (plus assistants) to student ration should ideally be one to one. 5. They should come well recommended. Ideally by personal friends of yours who you have no qualms about trusting your life to, again. Who know considerably more than you do about diving. Who came back from the course praising it and the instructor (and boasting a little about how well they did!) -- Wrolf Wrolf's Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf Wrolf's Net.Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf/netmgmt.shtml -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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