 Are your skills up to scratch?
I was recently delving through old threads and came across one about minimum loop volume. While reading it I saw a comment that “Your Instructor should have covered this during your course”. I am not having a go at that person, as I believe that they are correct.
The point that I want to make is that sometimes-important issues are missed out, or glossed over, possibly due to time constraints or just spending too much time on other subjects. When this happens, after the course students are embarrassed to admit that they don’t fully understand the subject, either because the Instructor missed it out or, because they maybe had a lapse of concentration during the lectures.
It is important that these issues are resolved, many do it by continuing to read everything in sight, Forum’s being a favourite and very useful point of reference.
So, (yes, I am getting there) would it be useful for the more experienced divers and Instructors on here to compile a list of the important skills that should have been taught during the courses? This would be in the form of a check list, (maybe there already is one) that would allow anyone to check the ‘Important’ skills and ask questions on subjects that they may feel that they don’t fully understand or just wish to explore more thoroughly.
Maybe this is a crap idea and I should have hit the delete button.
What do you reckon then? |