I subscribe to the multiple instructors scenario, all of my instructors were excellent at each level. I just feel I learned a little different approach to cave diving with each instructor. Plus, I now know four great instructors and divers.
'You can say what you want about the South, but I ain't never heard of anyone wanting to retire to the North'
Get your instruction and your C-Card. Then mentor with those who dive and don't instruct much or at all. I learned more from mentoring, then one could ever learn from an instructor in a class.
Joe
Originally Posted by Richard Pyle
I did Fundies, then tech training with GUE/DIR instructors. After that, I wanted a different perspective, so I chose Jim Wyatt for Cavern. It was a good experience for us as to challenging our notions on why we dive the way we do. It gave us both some experience with a slightly different gear setup, although in the end, it was all 95% the same (Jim dove his inflator hose from his left post, not his right, plus he didn't use spools as much.) Then I went on to take my next cave class with a Missouri Cave instructor because I felt the environment was different enough that should be part of my cave training. He was also not DIR.
Its all convinced me that we really squabble too much putting labels on things that don't matter.
Tom
Best line in this thread....
Safe diving,
Rich
did all of mine with the same weirdo
no regrets
Wife and I did all of ours with Richard Dreher. I couldn’t imagine doing any further training with another Instructor. Richard made it very easy to understand his methodology and explained things in ways that was easily understood. When you have someone that you have found that is so easy to learn from, it makes it hard to want to change and couple that with he has become a good friend.
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