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From: Capt JT <<captjt@mi*.co*><bold>
</bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>> During one drill he
asked us if we would do 3 man teams, I have
> experienced and see felled 3 man dive teams and said I did not want to do
> that. Everything he was about to explain about 3 man teams I already knew,
> we would be doing some of our in water skills with 3 man teams and we
> would fail....... 3 man teams are the hardest to dive, only those that
> practice this can use it to its fullest potential, a safer dive, those
> that just do it will always put one diver at risk.
</color>While I'm on my soap box,
Three man buddy teams have no place in diving instruction.
When two people dive together, they each divide their time between
what they are doing and what their buddy is doing.
When two people are diving in a class situation with an instructor,
the students each divide their time between what they are doing,
what their buddy is doing, what the instructor is doing, and
hopefully trying to learn something. <bold>THIS IS A THREE MAN
TEAM!</bold>
When three people are diving in a class situation with an instructor,
each students divides their time between what they are doing, what
buddy #1 is doing, what buddy #2 is doing, what the instructor is
doing, and hopefully trying to learn something. <bold>THIS IS A FOUR
MAN TEAM! </bold>How much do you think the student is really going to
learn in this situation?
As an instructor I have an obligation to be a backup to each of my
students.....to save them in a life threatening situation. Each time I
ad another student to the group it reduces proportionally the
amount of time I have to keep track of and teach each student.
In the pool I can see 4 to 6 students ( in two or three teams of two
buddies each ) to one instructor. In open water it's two buddies to
one instructor......especially in the overhead environment or
decompression.
<nofill>
Ted Green
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