We’ve all heard the mantra, “Choose your instructor carefully!” Wise words, right? What about choosing your students? Here Stratis Kas, tech diving instructor and author of...
Experts and those with in depth experience tend to have very different decision-making processes, making it harder for students to learn from them than from newer...
Instructor trainer Guy Shockey discusses the purpose, value, and yes, flexibility of standard operating procedures, or SOPs, in diving. Sound like an oxymoron? Shockey explains how...
GUE Instructor Examiner Guy Shockey explains the thought and details that goes into GUE’s most popular course, Fundamentals, aka “Fundies,” which has been taken by numerous...
Is it possible to make a career as a tech diving instructor? How about if you have a couple of instructor trainer credentials to boot? Here...
Help Polish PADI course director Joanna Kannenberg complete her in-depth research into “instructor burn-out.” Instructors, please answer her (multi-language) survey.
Not surprising, the answer is more complicated than simply, they neglected to look at their gauges. Here Aussie diving medical researcher and former editor of DAN’s...
by Peter Buzzacott Header photo by Kirill Egorov See companion story: Why Do Divers Run Out of Gas? In short, it is not known with any...
One of tech’s favorite dive impresarios, David Strike—think OZTek and ADEX—reviews GUE’s newly released, "The Fundamentals Of Better Diving," and contrasts it with Jarrod Jablonski’s original...
What is more important, training or experience? And when is a course—you bought a new DPV did you?—preferable to learning on your own? Tech educator and...
