My diving philosophy is very unique. While many diving instructors and dive stores focus on selling equipment, travel, and more training. My philosophy is really about an evolution in diving.

Evolution occurs in through changes in traits. This is what drives my education curriculum and teaching style. I strive to continually modify what and how I teach in order to maximize student learning. Everything evolves around diving education. All of my courses are designed to build upon a strong foundation of fundamental diving skills.

How does this change in a diver's traits occur? Let's look at a couple examples. Under water, we can not move around like we can on land. We do not have webbed feet that help us move about. So we must wear fins on our feet and focus on proper propulsion techniques that allow us to move as efficiently through the water as possible. We can not see as well underwater as on land. So we must wear masks. These masks limit our natural vision. So we must continually be aware of what is going on around us and use our other senses to be aware of our surroundings. Everything under water is different than what we are normally accustomed to. To ensure we are safe in this new and exciting environment, we must change our current way of thinking to match the environment we will be entering.

How do you envoke an evolution in diving? Simple. By following the rule of primacy. The rule of primacy states that the first thing learned is the most prominent. If you learn something the wrong way in the beginning, it will be much harder to stop doing it and correct that behavior. Human beings most often regress to primacy when under stress. If the correct behavior is taught the correct way in the beginning, you will do that behavior when under stress. To evolve in diving, you have to move past primacy and onto repetition. By repeating the correct behavior over and over, you can correct the wrong behavior. In my diving classes, repetition is the key to evolving as a diver. We spend a large amount of time doing skills over and over so that when you need to use them, you will be able to do so without much thought. We don't practice to get it right. We practice so we can't get it wrong.

To evolve as a diver, we must create a new generation of thinking divers. I do this through my unique instructional methodologies and educational system. Teaching to simulated failures begins to train our thought process such that we can evaluate if we are performing the correct behavior. This is also known as the rule of intensity. The rule of intensity states that an intense learning situations is remembered well.

The diving courses I have put together are unique in that they combine the rule of primacy with the rule of intensity. I believe this type of program creates a safe, thinking diver and thus increases the fun in your diving activities. I believe divers should be trained beyond their level of diving as opposed to diving beyond their level of training.