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Sean:
This is very typical in the business. I fought this when I was active as an
instructor, but with little success. Bob Raimo also fought it, but much
harder than I did -- same results. The last year I taught (1998), I used the
agency standards (TDI at that time), and made additional requirements to
account for Northeast diving conditions. I had to compete with instructors
that offered $200 classes completed in one weekend, yet by standards these
classes require 4-6 hours of classroom, a confined water session, and six
dives! I had "brokers" who wanted to send me students for a week long Trimix
class, but the students wanted to "come out of the class" as Trimix
Instructors, just like your guy! I always told these folks that if you come
to me, I will train you, if you just want a cert card, there are plenty of
other places you can go.
The few public responses (I only saw one) to your post, demonstrate that
this practice is so common, that so many of us are de-sensitized to it, that
hardly anyone will even say anything about it.
How do we fix it? Get the training agencies to do what they say they do --
send eval forms at random to students (like PADI does), and review the
responses. I think that few instructors would deliberately violate standards
if they knew that an enforcement method was in place. And when they catch
violators -- can them (that's "sack" them for you British divers), and
notify the other agencies to make it harder for them to crossover.
I am in Massachusetts. What area are you in?
- Randy
In a message dated 4/13/01 10:29:10 AM, AMEBIX13@ao*.co* writes:
<< Hello All,
I have just heard something that personally disturbs me greatly.
According to my father, there is going to be a new technical diving
instructor in my area...now this in of it's self is not bad, however when he
gave me the details of this I really began to become appauled. This certain
instructor said that he would be getting his Trimix instructor card soon
after spending A WEEK with a certain TDI instructor trainer. As if this
isn't bad enough, During this week he will be completing the instructor
courses for Extended range, Deco procedures, and advanced nitrox...He will
also be getting HIS certifications for all of these courses, during the
course of ths week. Thats right folks, from never having dived mix to
teaching it in one quick week. I find it quite disturbing that you can go
from Deco Procedures to Trimix instructor in ONE WEEK!!! It is this that
is wrong with the diving world today. Well this motivates me to go down to
florida to do some training with GUE even more! If anyone wants more
information on this let me know and I will post it
Take care and be careful who you train with.
Sean >>
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