Early this week, I was talking with a friend who happened to mention that a dive store wasn’t doing very well and was trying to sell off a part of their business. We started discussing our current national economic situation and the impact on the scuba diving industry. How can dive centers survive in this very tough economy? How can scuba equipment manufacturers help the dive stores? [Read more...]
The Rebreather Option
Duane Johnson - Technical Diving Instructor
I am rebreather illiterate. That is, I really don’t know much about them. This prevents me from writing about them. Since I am far from an expert on the subject, I don’t feel I could write anything of quality. It would mostly be restating what I’ve already read about rebreathers. Which isn’t much. [Read more...]
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What’s in a Title – Scuba Instructor Ratings
When I was going through my PADI IDC, our course director spoke with us at great detail about PADI’s levels of instructor ratings. He said that we should strive to achieve these ratings as it will make us more marketable. For the first two years I was an instructor, I bought into this. My focus wasn’t entirely on producing a great class, but rather collecting numbers so I could move up the ranks of the PADI instructor levels. To this day, those two years were the darkest of my instructing career. They say hindsight is always 20/20, and I wished I would have approached my classes better. [Read more...]
Sea Sickness – You Have Nothing to Lose but your Cookies
They say that, when you’re seasick, you start off worrying that you might die, and then, after a while, you start to worry that you won’t die! I know from personal experience, seasickness is a debilitating affliction that can destroy the otherwise ideal day of diving. Understanding the causes of seasickness enables you to work on preventing the problem. [Read more...]
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