What It Takes to Be a Great Diver

By | Feature Posts, Knowledge Base

Riding an Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV)

Leaders are Made

If you are a regular reader of this site, you’ll know that my primary goal is to help you improve your diving skills. Many of you have written to me saying that your diving enjoyment has increased due to some of my tips. I know occasionally I’ll go off on a tangent and babble about things that have nothing to do with your in-water abilities, but the goal stays the same for me. The title line for the home page of this site says “Helping Divers Build Exceptional Diving Skills“. This isn’t some marketing scheme or catch phrase, it’s what motivates me to teach and publish articles on this site. Now I want to give you the Holy Grail of diving education. I want to tell you the one thing that will make you a great scuba diver. [Read more...]

Want to Learn Great Buoyancy Control?

By | Feature Posts, Training

Slow Down Speed Limit

Slow Things Down for Buoyancy Control

I get asked all the time, “How can I improve my buoyancy control?”. Many people think that there is a silver bullet that will allow them to have precision buoyancy control. You want to know the truth? There is none. If you want to gain awesome buoyancy control, all you need to do is slow yourself down. If you can slow down your mind, you’ll start to think like an expert diver. If you can think like an expert diver, you’ll start to preform like an expert diver. Then your divers will be exponentially more enjoyable. You’ll be surprised how your mind can cause you to become a better diver. [Read more...]

Evolving Recreational Scuba Diving Courses: Mentoring and Coaching

By | Training

Duane Johnson - Tech Instructor

Duane Johnson - Tech Instructor

As diving professionals, we discuss with our students the importance of continuing their diving education. Learning new skills to enhance their diving is a great way to keep people diving and enjoying our underwater world. However, continuing education must go further than just learning a few new skills. As diving professionals, we are supposed to have superior diving skills, we are supposed to be trained on how to present diving material in order to maximize student learning. We should be using the opportunity continuing education courses give us to help mentor and coach divers, not just give them a license to take another class. [Read more...]

What’s in a Title – Scuba Instructor Ratings

By | Training

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...]

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