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096 Teaching Others About Tipping Dive Boat Crew

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you’ll learn how to teach others about tipping dive boat crew.

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“Tipping is not a city in China” that has to be one of my favorite signs about tipping. But there’s a reason why that and many other signs like “Crew works for tips” exist. It’s because people are not very accustomed to tipping for service outside of the bar and restaurant industry. In the diving industry the greatest area of tipping occurs on charter dive boats. But there’s a lack of common practice about tipping on dive boats – part of the reason is that dive boat charters can have a hefty price tag to them and adding a tip onto that is just not calculated. And in some cases it isn’t even thought of because divers think “wow, that persons job was to dive with me or to be out on the ocean, I’m not going to tip them, they love their job” or “I’d do this job for free.”

Well the fact is that divemasters and instructors and in some cases captains who are boat crew rely on tips as a substantial part of their income. And we as dive professionals are THE people to teach others about tipping. So that is what we’ll be talking about today. The need for tipping, how much and how to teach others how to do it.

Items In This Episode

  • All the roles boat crew must play
  • What is the going rate for tipping dive boat crew?
  • If you’re an instructor taking your students on a boat, should you tip the crew?

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If you find this show adds value to you as a dive pro and you’d like to help support the show, please consider supporting it on Patreon. It’s only $4 per month – that’s only $1 per episode. When you become a supporter of The Dive Locker you’ll get a shout out from me on the next episode after you join. You will also be listed on the Patrons of Dive Locker Podcast webpage. And you will receive 10% off any ScubaGuru Academy course at the Patron level, and 20% off at the Rockstar level. And of course my undying appreciation for helping support the show.

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Thanks For Listening!

That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com . There you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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LXD049 : Amos Nachoum

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Amos Nachoum – Underwater Big Animal Photographer

In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary underwater big animal photographer Amos Nachoum.

Bio

You have seen the images of today’s legend in one way or another, because his images of big and or dangerous underwater animals have graced printed works from diving magazines to advertising agencies.

Amos Nachoum is a master of photographing with purpose the BEHAVIOR of Big Animals worldwide, the threatened and endangered. He freedives with blue whales off the Eastern Pacific, scuba dives in the Okavango delta with crocodiles and goes face to face with the great white shark. One of only five people ever to swim and photograph Polar bear underwater… More people were on the moon …12.

Since 1980, he has explored every significant body of water from the North Pole to Antarctica. Amos’s photographic vision is to raise awareness of ocean giants in their habitats. His images reflect respect and compassion for animals and wilderness. His photographs strive to dispel the myth of “dangerous” wildlife and show harmonious interactions between man and animal. Also, Amos is an explorer. He leads wildlife photography expeditions with his company BigAnimals.com.

Amos’s photos and essays have appeared in publications including National Geographic, Time, Life, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Le Figaro, Terra Sauvage, Airone, Der Spiegel, Unterwasser, Fifty Fathoms and the cover of the Explorers Club Journal, in February 2020. Amos’s photography won the prestigious Nikon contest.

Awards

He is a two-time winner in the animal behavioral category of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award. In 2012 he placed first in the American Photography Artist competition. In 2014 he shared his vision “There is no demons in the sea” at the prestigious Ted Talk to a standing ovation.

Amos won in 2018, First place at the SIPA award, animals behavior category. In 2019 he was nominated to be the SeaKeepers man of the year, alongside James Cameron, David Attenborough, Walter Cronkite, Jacques Cousteau and Mikael Gorbachev.

The movie “Picture of his Life”, about Amos’s career and ultimate adventure diving with the Polar bear, has been released after ten years in the making, to great review in both Europe and in the USA.

Amos lives in Pacific Grove CA, USA. He photographs with Nikon camera, Seacam housing and strobes. His cinema camera is the RED, Monstro and Nauticam housing.

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Sponsor

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095 Calling The Dive

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you’ll learn about how to use great storytelling to educate students.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

Today I want to share a massive teachable moment from this past weekends dive trip where we did an in – service training for the NSU Academic Diving Program. We had objectives to complete, but the conditions presented to us changed, or would have changed, the outcome of those objectives. And what ensured was dramatic and hair raising. In the end, we had to dissect the events and they became great teachable moments for our entire staff. And the importance of being able to call the dive as a dive professional rang out loud and clear! I can’t wait to share this with you.

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If you find this show adds value to you as a dive pro and you’d like to help support the show, please consider supporting it on Patreon. It’s only $4 per month – that’s only $1 per episode. When you become a supporter of The Dive Locker you’ll get a shout out from me on the next episode after you join. You will also be listed on the Patrons of Dive Locker Podcast webpage. And you will receive 10% off any ScubaGuru Academy course at the Patron level, and 20% off at the Rockstar level. And of course my undying appreciation for helping support the show.

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Thanks For Listening!

That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com . There you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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LXD048 : Dick Long

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Dick Long – Diving Industry Veteran & Exposure Protection Legend

In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with thermal protection legend Dick Long.

Bio

If you’ve ever worn a wetsuit or drysuit – and most of you have – then you can thank today’s legend for the improved designs of thermal insulation on your dives!

Dick Long is the Founder, owner and chairman of the board, of Diving Unlimited International, Inc, San Diego, CA DUI is currently considered the leader in drysuit design, manufacturing, dive procedures and buoyancy control.

Dick Began diving in 1958. Became a diving instructor in 1960 – NAUI #49. After that he became certified as PADI and YMCA instructor. He worked as a contract diver with the U.S. Navy in the Arctic in 1965 and was an equipment designer for Sea Lab II; worked on early saturation dives.

Dick participated in the first dives to over 1000 feet and eventually open sea, working dives to 1400 feet. He lectures and writes extensively for recreational publications and retail shows. Dick started his own diving equipment business in 1959 and started developing wetsuits which ultimately became dry suits in the early 1980s. In 1965 developed the hot water suit which is in use to this day.

Dick has served major marketplaces including the Military, Search and Rescue and Scientific, Recreational diver and Commercial/Industrial markets.

Equipment Development

And when it comes to equipment development, he has developed helmets, gas manifold systems, backpack harnesses, weight and trim systems, buoyancy control systems, zip seals, breathing bag assemblies, and various thermal protection equipment, bell survival systems, rebreather systems, a to-fro CO2 scrubber system, wide variety of thermal support equipment

Patents

Dick had developed an amazing 12 patents including:

Air Inlet Valve for Underwater Diver’s Dry Suit
Low Friction means to Facilitate Putting on an Underwater Suit
Underwater Diver’s Drysuit & Method of Sealing (Seam Sealing)
Easy Access Underwater Diving Suit
Method of Treating an Underwater Diver’s Drysuit
Nonreturn Hot Water Diving Suit
Method of Forming Crushed Foam
Hot Water Suit
Hot Water System
Breathing Gas Heater
Weight and Trim System
Buoyancy Compensator

Awards

1965 – U.S. Navy Superior Accomplishment Award
1991 – NOGI award for education
1994 – NAUI Lenny Greenstone award for safety
1994 – L.A. County Underwater Instructors’ Assn. – honoree for diving safety and education
1995 – Diver of the Year award from Beneath the Sea Show
1996 – DAN Diver of the Year Award
1997 – California Scuba Service Award
2000 – NAUI Hall of Fame
2003 – Diver of the Year, Our World Underwater
2004 – DEMA Reaching Out Award for lifetime achievement
2016 – California Divers Hall of Fame
2017- NAUI life time achievement award

Author of Training and Educational Material

DrySuit Diving – Book

Board of Advisors

Historical Diving Society USA
IANTD – Int’l Association of Nitrox and Tech Divers
Florida Institute of Technology
Santa Barbara City College – Commercial Diving School
California Ships to Reefs
Diver’s Alert Network (DAN)
San Diego Oceans Foundation
California Certified Reef Enhancement
DEMA European Development
DEMA Board – Education Committee
Scuba Diving Resource Group
And many others

Of his many diving organization professional membership, Dick is also a fellow in The Explorers Club

Items In This Podcast

  • Began diving in California when there were no scuba training agencies
  • Started his first diving business in 1959
  • Went through the first NAUI Instructor course in Texas in 1960
  • Worked on Sea Lab II project
  • Helping the US Navy with exposure suit protection
  • The first hot water suit
  • Chasing black sea bass
  • The wonderful operations at DUI

Sponsor

Special thanks to our episode sponsor Aggressor Adventures

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094 Using Storytelling To Educate

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you’ll learn about how to use great storytelling to educate students.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

Hey everyone welcome once to the show. Thanks for the great comments and support of our last couple episodes – first on the negligence episode and then last weeks professional liability insurance episode. Lot’s of great comments, sharing of the posts, and it’s great to see how many of you downloaded the Professional Liability Insurance Policy Worksheet. I did get corrected on one thing I mentioned the premiums of the policies, but I did not mention that both the DAN and V&B policies included taxes and fees. But the First Dive policy did not. That premium of $814 that I mentioned is actually higher once the taxes and fees are added, I think that brings it over $900 when those are added.

Again thanks for all the support from those episodes

Today we are going over the art of storytelling in your classes. As dive pro’s we love to tell our diving stories. But we’ve been cautioned on telling too many war stories. Well, there is some truth to that if the stories are inappropriate. However, I want to encourage you on your storytelling. And, Ill go over some tips and techniques for using storytelling as an educational tool.

Items In This Episode

  • Stories must have relevance
  • Stories must be succinct
  • Stories must have a memorable outcome

Episode Sponsor

If you find this show adds value to you as a dive pro and you’d like to help support the show, please consider supporting it on Patreon. It’s only $4 per month – that’s only $1 per episode. When you become a supporter of The Dive Locker you’ll get a shout out from me on the next episode after you join. You will also be listed on the Patrons of Dive Locker Podcast webpage. And you will receive 10% off any ScubaGuru Academy course at the Patron level, and 20% off at the Rockstar level. And of course my undying appreciation for helping support the show.

https://www.patreon.com/thedivelocker

Thanks For Listening!

That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com . There you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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Welcome Dive Professionals

Welcome to ScubaGuru.com!  The ScubaGuru brand is dedicated to giving dive professionals tools and techniques to be GREAT LEADERS – leaders in the classroom, leaders underwater, and leaders in their diving businesses.  With unique leadership skill-sets, the dive professional can create:

  • Better divers
  • Loyal customers
  • A thriving dive center
  • A flourishing dive industry

See what we mean by Go Beyond the Standard and enjoy the rewards of being truly great at what you do!

Sincerely,

Tec Clark

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