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Raimo, re: >Becoming a PADI Instructor is a two part process. Once enrolled in an >Instructor development course (IDC), he spends about 40 hours being taught Min 64 hours classroom instruction, now. >If he passes the IE, a PADI Instructor is now allowed to teach Basic >openwater, Advanced openwater, andRrescue diver. Don't forget divemaster. >Keep in mind that the ONLY >experience the Instructor has in teaching any of the above comes from what he >did prior to the IDC on his own, which in most cases, is nothing. Actually, you are at least a DM, and with the new experience requirements have 40 more dives and 1 year of experience from the date of your OW cert. (this means, 40 dives to begin DM training, 60 dives before completion of DM training, and 1 year certified and 100 logged dives to be instructor) >basically zilch about teh advanced adn rescue diver program, and are expected >upon enrollment to be prepared for the "rigors" (now there is a joke) of >becoming an instructor. Roger that. >Add to all this the fact that a newly certified PADI instructor can the very >next following day after passing his IE, enroll into a PADI Master Scuba >Diver Trainer program, and poof!, two days later you are awareded the PADI >MSDT rating. Not anymore. PADI has changed this, you now have to certify 25 divers before you can begin the MSDT program. Then you have to complete 5 specality instructor courses, THEN you can get the MSDT stuff. >Sorry, all instructors were not created equal. True. But all cert agencies are. Basically, I'm just picking nits w/ your padi standards. They've been changed recently, and your post was inaccurate from that viewpoint. Personally (I just completed the PADI instructor stuff) I don't think that either the instructor training or the diver training is sufficient. I believe that it is a reflection of how safe diving really is that we don't have recreational divers dropping like flies. In my opinion, the OW courses offered by the training agencies do not qualify a diver to dive without professional supervision, DM, AI, or instructor along. After completion of say 25 dives at that level, and completion of additional training (call it AOW) under various conditions comprising of, say, 15 training dives under various conditions then the diver is probably qualified to venture out w/o the supervision of a DM or instructor. I've never liked the time requirements, it should be experience. I know divers who've been certified for 10 years, and probably have 20 dives. I know others who have been certified about 1 year, and have logged 100+ dives. I know who the better diver is! But your point is well taken, and I don't believe any of the agencies that I've seen so far are really doing a good job of training their students to a level that I'd consider satisfactory. Some instructors do, and their agency doesn't seem to matter much. But you won't find any particular concentration of good instructors in any particular agency, the distribution seems to be random. -- /***************************************************************************/ /* William E. Sadler | email: sadler_b@bs*.bs*.bl*.co* */ /* | batchmo@cr*.co* */ /* Divers Down! [\] | CI$: 71005,1241 */ /* | POTS: (404) 332-2314 */ /***************************************************************************/ /* Keep your Honor, be Bold, and remember: */ /* The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and */ /* squished possums. */ /***************************************************************************/
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