
Why is control important when you are a dive professional.
As a PADI professional and particularly as a PADI Instructor we hold a great deal of responsibility each time we take a student into the water, be it the swimming pool or open water. The onus is on the instructor to provide a safe dive and complete that dive or pool session with the student/s without incident. I believe that the core of being able to do that is good student/assistant and dive control. Here we will try and explain why control is so important when you are a dive professional. I sometimes hear the excuse of instructors “I told the student not to do that”. Instructors should not get into the habit of relying on ver [...]
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