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Gah!! Not the drysuit training issue again!
I got really annoyed recently with some idiots on the BSAC Instructor Forum going on about the new Diver Training Program and "where's the lessons on teaching DS diving" FFS! only the DTP has changed, not the way to use a suit.
Any BSAC divers who have used a suit for some time can get a sticker for their QRB from HQ, its either free or for a nominal charge, I don't know what "evidence " you have to provide but I'm sure it won't require a 'statement of completion' from a formal course. If anyone needs an instructor to sign them off on this let me know and we can do a dive on a regular "YD Troop gig" (to borrow Bren's phrasing) and sort that out.
However, if anyone wants a "formal course" that's easily done, I'd be quite happy to do it, depending on location, there's an obligatory one DS use in the pool/sheltered water.
I've been training complete beginners for some time now and never found it too hard to cover this topic in the course of the normal training, consequently the recent angst over formal DS training seems a bit over the top to me. In fact the only problem I've found with any regularity is getting the trainees to use sufficient lead to make them sink in the first place.
Incidentally, I don't have this "sticker" myself (never needed it to date) nor have most other bsac instructors I know, wonder what that skipper would make of that ?
Chee-az
Steve
(Edited by Steve W at 1:15 pm on Nov. 28, 2002)  |