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118 Don’t Be Afraid To Challenge Your Students

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn why we shouldn’t be afraid to challenge our students.

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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.

A couple weeks ago I had beer with a couple colleagues from the University. They are both professors and we are finishing up our semester. As we got to talking some scenarios of problematic students started to roll out.

They included a student that didn’t know how to open a zip file and another didn’t know how to open a PDF and they were both asking their professors how to do that. These are adults in college.

Now more than ever, kids and young adults are being cared to and pampered. Parents are shielding kids from harm but also even challenges. This produces entitlement as well as fear of doing hard things.

In this episode we discuss how we as scuba instructors need to preserve the ability to challenge students for their own growth and success.

Items In This Episode

  • Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
  • Following the syllabus
  • Giving reasonable challenges
  • Pointing out growth all along the way
  • Parents, managers, professors and scuba instructors all need to challenge students so that growth will occur
  • The Emperor Moth

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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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117 DAN Training Check In

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn about all the new and improved training programs of Divers Alert Network with Jim Gunderson.

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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.

Divers Alert Network has been up to some big changes in their training programs. Not only have they had significant updates to their existing programs, but they are also launching new ones.

To discuss all these offerings I caught up with Jim Gunderson the Director of Training at DAN at the DEMA Show last month. Jim at one time was a ski patrol medic, then scuba took over and he rose through the ranks becoming NAUI’s training manager in 2016 and now DAN’s Director of Training. Jim truly is a trainer of trainers at the highest degree, and an overall great guy.

And after the interview I’m going tell you about implementing DAN training – especially Diving First Aid for Professionals DFAPro – into your course offerings, and why it is of such benefit.

Items In This Episode

  • DAN training department changes
  • ILCOR revisions
  • Improved DFAPro course
  • Phasing out DEMP
  • New DSO program and more
  • DAN TV YouTube Channel

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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.

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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116 DEMA Show 2021 Wrap Up

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we get a debrief on the DEMA Show 2021 in Las Vegas.

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So when you put on an industry trade show that is 1/3 the normal size in exhibitors and attendees, one would naturally deduct that was a failed show. However, that is not the case with DEMA Show 2021.

In fact, there was a uniqueness to this DEMA show that I have never seen. There was positivity and tons of relationship building and connecting because there was actually time to connect. So I’m gonna break down some of the highlights of the show for you today and catch you up if you did not make it out there.

Items In This Episode

  • Exhibitors
  • New products
  • DEMA Sponsored Seminars
  • Exhibitor Sponsored Seminars
  • COVID Protocols
  • Connections/Networking

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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.

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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115 Teaching Diving Classes at Colleges and Universities

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn about teaching scuba diving programs in colleges and universities.

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.

First, I want to thank everyone who sent me messages regarding the previous episode teaching diving physics. Love to hear from you, and some of you are quite passionate about the topic. Huge shoutout to Alex Brylske who spent not only years at PADI College but at Florida Keys Community College. He had an extremely thorough curriculum including physics. And another person I was remiss to mention.

Do you remember how I said that I came out of my NAUI ITC as provisional for physics. Well I would have been literally a complete do-over of an ITC if it wasn’t for my amazing instructor trainer and friend Paul White! He texted me and called me out for not mentioning him. He should! Why because he absolutely poured into me formulas and calculations that I never heard of or even if I had heard of them, I failed at it. Paul was and is the best. He was even one of my groomsman in my wedding. Love you Paul!

Again, great comments from last weeks episode.

“So, it must be great to teach scuba at a university.” is a comment I get a lot. And the answer is yes, yes it is! Some of you listening do teach at colleges or universities and you know that true and will wholeheartedly agree with that. And then there’s a whole lot of you that would love the opportunity to teach at a college or university. Well – this episode is for you.

I have worked at three university diving programs. The University of Florida Academic Diving Program, Emory University Academic Diving Program, Georgia State University, and currently Nova Southeastern University’s Academic Diving Program. In fact, working at UF, Emory and Georgia State gave me the experience to build the NSU Academic Diving Program from the ground up.

This is an area that is near and dear to my heart and I want to share some tips and techniques for you to approach colleges and universities to teach diving programs at them.

Items In This Episode

  • Scientific Diving
  • Academic Diving
  • Recreational Diving
  • Leased
  • Outcomes & Experiences
  • Liability
  • Revenue
  • Equipment
  • Curriculum

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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.

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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114 Teaching Diving Physics

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn about how much physics should be taught in diving courses.

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When I went through my instructor course, I came out provisional. That means I almost passed! I was provisional in the academic area of Physics. Now I went through a NAUI ITC in the late 80’s so it was pretty heavy on diving physics. Then, once you suffered through it, you felt obligated to punish I mean, teach, others about it.

Well for me it was easy to justify. I began my career in academic diving and I am still in it today teaching diving at a university. So, to justify credit hours issued by a university there has to be way more taught than is in the standard books, videos and/or learning from a scuba training agency. So in an Open Water Diver course there will be a greater than normal amount of emphasis put into the theory areas of physics, physiology, decompression theory, equipment and environment.

But outside of the university setting in “regular” scuba classes how much of diving physics should be taught. That is what we’re gonna discuss today in this episode.

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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.

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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