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LXD061 : Jeff Bozanic

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Jeff Bozanic – Scientific Diving Legend

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In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary scientific diver and explorer Jeff Bozanic.

Today’s guest is one of the premiere scientific divers and explorers on the planet.

Bio

Jeffrey Bozanic is the president of Next Generation Services, where he provides consulting and training services in the diving market. Clients include rebreather manufacturers, training agencies and legal agencies. Bozanic has participated in or led more than 70 diving expeditions in the past 30 years, to places like Palau, the Canary Islands and Antarctica.

He was certified as a NAUI Instructor in 1978 and is active in teaching cave diving, rebreather, nitrox, decompression and trimix diving courses. He has published extensively on diving education topics, with a heavy emphasis on diving safety. Bozanic has edited and reviewed many diving textbooks and is the author of Mastering Rebreathers, as well as the senior Technical Editor of the NOAA Diving Manual. He has served on several boards of directors in the diving community, including as Chairman of the NSS-CDS, Vice Chairman of NAUI and Treasurer of the AAUS.

He currently serves on the TDI Technical Advisory Committee and on multiple diving control boards.In 2007, he was honored as the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year, and in 2015, he was the recipient of the AAUS Conrad Limbaugh Award for Scientific Diving Leadership. In 2018 Beneath the Sea selected him as the Diver of the Year Science.

Items In This Podcast

  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Inspiration
  • High school scuba class
  • Scuba dredging for gold camping trip
  • Scouting helped with diving success
  • Underwater gold mining in the Bolivian jungle
  • Rebreathers in the industry
  • Mexican cave adventure with a speedo, machete and poison ivy
  • Antartica naked ice dive photo shoot
  • Favorite diving locations
  • Jeffery.Bozanic facebook
  • “Mastering Rebreathers” Best Publishing
  • Expeditions

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077 Presenting Equipment Rather Than Selling Equipment With Chad Barbay

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we chat with Chad Barbay about the importance of retail salesmanship as a dive professional.

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.

You know we hear so much about selling and the importance of selling, and we are surrounded by sales messages all over the place. Yet when it comes to the act of selling, many dive professionals shy away. Some are not interested, some are not “the salesperson type” and some are downright uncomfortable and nervous about selling.

But if you think about it as dive professionals that means we are paid to do our jobs and somehow we got to get paid! If you’re an independent instructor, you still need to sell yourself and your services to stay in business. And if you work for a dive center, well, you need to help that dive center stay in business by helping them sell courses, equipment, trips, travel, etc. You can’t have a diving business without some type of selling.

Chad Barbay

Today’s guest is a well-known industry icon and a long time colleague of mine Chad Barbay. Chad started diving in 1980 in the Great State of Louisiana. By the way he’s a huge LSU Tigers fan! I’m a huge Florida Gators fan, but we don’t let that get in the way of our friendship – except on gameday.

His first few years of diving was mainly off the Louisiana coast spearfishing under the drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. In the process Chad worked his way to become a NAUI Instructor. In 1986 he moved to Florida and after a few years teaching diving he had the opportunity to become the Florida Representative for NAUI.

He spent the next 24 years working for NAUI as their representative and eventually North American Sales manager for 13 years. Along the way Chad also became the representative for many equipment manufacturers. In 2011 Huish Outdoors was formed and consumed some of the manufacturers he was representing, among them were Atomic Aquatics and BARE. Huish Outdoors went on to purchase many other companies including Zeagle, Stahlsac, Oceanic and Hollis, and became North American distributors for Suunto.

Over the last 27 years Chad has worked with many retail dive stores across the US and has strived to help stores become more successful. Thus the culmination and beginning of a product training website and the creation of Dive Store Make Over which he contracts with dive store retailers to turn their dive business into a profit center.

Items In This Episode

  • E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to do About It by Michael Gerber
  • Dive Store Makeover
  • Dive Store Makeover Facebook Page

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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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059 The Importance of The Swim Test for Open Water Diver Courses

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we uncover the importance of the swim test during Open Water Diver courses.

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Thanks for being with me today! Well in this episode we are gonna talk about the importance of the swim test for open water diver courses. RSTC says one thing, the agencies say something else. Then you’ve got variations of the test to consider as well as rules that can be, and are being, violated because instructors are letting them. There’s some great items to discuss, clarify and bring to light. Im also going to discuss tips for administering the swim test to make it as effective as possible.

Now we all know you need to be able to swim to be a certified diver, right? But what does “able to swim” mean? What is the ability needed and what should be measured? And by the way we are only addressing open water diver in this episode, the leadership swim tests could be a whole different episode. First, let’s break down what it is and what it isn’t. It’s not to measure fitness, endurance or technique. Although some of those might be on display, it’s not what we’re focused on. Instead the swim test is to demonstrate aquatic comfort and proficiency in the ability to keep the airway unobstructed in water. This is done while moving or swimming, and not moving, stationary. Strokes used and how fast one swims are also not measured directly. Yet indirectly they do give us a snapshot of big picture aquatic abilities.

Agency Swim Test Standards

So lets look at what our agencies using as standards for this test. And special thanks my colleagues for providing me with their standards and rationale, thanks to Sage Dalton with SSI, Steve Lewis with RAID, Derik Crotts with PSS, Ben Brown with SEI, Kris with NAUI and Jarrod Jablonski with GUE.

First here is what the RSTC standard states:
Physical Conditioning and Watermanship Evaluation. The student shalleffectively demonstrate basic watermanship ability by performing, to an instructor, the watermanship evaluation required by a training organization. This watermanship evaluation shall include either: a) continuous 200 yard (183 metre) surface distance swim and a 10 minute survival swim/float without the use of mask, fins, snorkel or of other swimming aids. b) 300 yard swim using mask, fins and snorkel, and a 10 minute survival swim/float without mask, fins, snorkel or other swimming aid. If an exposure suit is used, the wearer must be neutrally buoyant at the surface.

Swim Test Standards

  • PADI
  • SSI
  • RAID
  • PSS
  • SEI
  • GUE
  • NAUI

Items In This Episode

  • What to look for in the swim test?
  • How to conduct the swim test?
  • How do instructors do the swim test wrong?

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037 Memorial Day Special Featuring Force Blue

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you’ll hear about Force Blue’s mission combining the needs of combat veterans returning home with the needs of our marine ecosystems.

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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.

Hey everyone welcome to our special Memorial Day edition of the Dive Locker podcast. I’m delighted to be with you today. This upcoming Monday May 25th, 2020 is Memorial Day here in the United States. But no matter where you are, it is a great time to honor those who serve our countries in the armed forces.

Being a former law enforcement officer myself, I understand what it means to protect and serve. But our men and women of the armed forces take that to a whole different level. They sacrifice for our freedoms. I got to come home each night at the end of my shifts, whereas they might retreat to a cot, in a bungalow, halfway around the world. And some sacrifice it all. And so this episode it is fitting that we feature Force Blue.

Force Blue

Established as a 501c3 nonprofit organization in 2016, FORCE BLUE addresses two seemingly unrelated problems — the rapidly declining health of our planet’s ocean resources and the difficulty that returning combat veterans have in adjusting to civilian life.

By uniting the community of Special Operations veterans with the world of marine science and conservation, FORCE BLUE has created a transpartisan model of caring, cooperation and positive change with the power to restore lives and restore the planet. Joining me today from Force Blue is Angelo Fiore. Angelo is a former US Navy Diver and veteran of the first Gulf War. He has the Fiore Service Group, a company that represents manufacturers and organizations in the diving industry such as NAUI, Huish Outdoors, Light n Motion and AB Biller. And Angelo is the Director of Diving Operations and Training Director for Force Blue.

But before that interview the results are in on the first round of brackets on the Pandemic Madness 2020 from James and Brandon on The Great Dive Podcast. As I mentioned last week this is like March Madness with college basketball, except the teams that run through this tournament are legends in the diving industry. By voting each week it will eventually get whittled down to the top diver of all time. This is awesome and this week some big legends fell. Regrettably I fell to Sir Robert Boyle of Boyle’s Law fame. Oh well, but more surprising is that Jill Heinerth fell to Albert Buhlman! Ugh…. Stan Waterman fell, Stephen Frink fell, Jarrod Jablonski fell.

So check that out it’s the Great Dive Podcast’s Pandemic Madness 2020. Check out all the names and keep voting each week.

Items In This Episode

  • The beginning of Force Blue
  • The Force Blue deployments
  • Super Bowl and 100 Yards of Hope
  • Coral Restoration with Nova Southeastern University
  • Who can get involved with Force Blue
  • How to support Force Blue

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 and 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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019 NAUI Check-In

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In this episode of The Dive Locker podcast we hear from NAUI’s Director of Training Terrence Tysall of the many happenings in NAUI.

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

I’m your host Tec Clark. Welcome everyone. In today’s episode, we’re going to have another training agency check-in. Today we’ll hear from Terrence Tysall, Director of Training for NAUI. Now, since it’s been a while since we’ve done a check-in, let me explain it. This is an opportunity for you to hear right from the training agencies themselves on what they’re about as an organization and what new things they’ve got going on. And listen, you don’t have to be a NAUI professional to listen. Don’t switch the dial because you’re not a NAUI professional. In fact, it’s always been my wish that if you’re an instructor or dive pro or a divemaster of one agency, you can learn about other agencies by hearing directly from them, not by listening to rumor mills or from the shop down the street, but by hearing from them on these check-ins.

And so also we had lots of good feedback from the last episode, “Your next class is always your best class.” It seemed like that episode resonated with many of you out there. We got lots of likes and shares from that one and that’s really cool because I know many of you have the same quality mindset as I do and we share that together, so keep it up. That’s awesome. I like to see that and keep up the likes and the shares as well of these episodes. So without any further ado, let’s hear from Terrence Tysall for the NAUI check in.

TEC CLARK:           Well Terrence, here we are at the NAUI check-in at DEMA 2019 it’s so good to have you on the Dive Locker. How are you doing?

TERRENCE TYSALL:              I’m good Tec. Thanks a bunch. I appreciate you having us.

TEC CLARK:           Yeah. Well tell us about this. You know, NAUI check in. It’s your opportunity to tell us what’s going on in NAUI, but I want to start with right off the bat, what makes NAUI different from all of the training agencies that are out there?

 TERRENCE TYSALL:             Two things spring to mind. Immediately. The first one, of course, hearkening back to our bylaws in which we have enshrined what we refer to as the loved one concept. And this is a written contract, a document in our bylaws that, States that we would not certify anybody at any level, whether it’s leadership or lower, unless we would be willing to have those people dive with our loved ones at the same level as an equal body. So it’s super important to us.

TEC CLARK:           Right. I remember it well. That’s when I, you know, went through my first instructor training in that was the whole level that we measured upon and the entire instructor training course group would have to feel that way about everybody going through that led to such unification in who was coming through and who was getting certified. That was a really important tenet of what it meant to be a NAUI pro. And, and that’s the first thing you say is one of the differences. Would I trust this person to teach a loved one to dive. I think that that is a really great, great hallmark.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              Yeah. Or even more importantly, even at that, even at the most basic open water level, would you trust that person to be a buddy? Or, the loved one of yours. And that’s just, and again, it’s in our DNA I guess. And then I guess the second thing is, is it’s funny, it’s hard to even visualize from outside, but in NAUI there’s this vaunted concept of instruction or academic freedom, which means when you have a basic set of standards that you adhere to that then past that, as long as the students know in advance and you’ve explained it, then you can take that course and teach it to the next level.

TERRENCE TYSALL: And you with your, you know, with your training experience, you know that, I mean, it’s a, I’ve been real fortunate in my life to, to train a lot of technical things and then train multiple years at universities where you can get an open water student for a semester. So it’s, it’s just wonderful. And, I think that’s important in today’s culture because I mean, we’re members of the RSTC and it’s so frustrating to hear of the norm now as a two day scuba course or four days scuba course. And we can’t do that. That’s just, yeah, it’s tough.

TEC CLARK:           Yeah. I think those are really remarkable. the academic freedom thing has been, you know, something that is, is, is highly celebrated amongst NAUI instructors worldwide. and you know, this has been from the beginning, you know, you guys have been on that, and part of those bylaws since, since the inception back in what, 1960?

TERRENCE TYSALL:              It’s, yeah, it’s our 60th anniversary this year. 60th anniversary. That’s pretty amazing.

TEC CLARK:           Yeah. All right, so we’re hitting 60 years right now. You’re at the show, you’ve got a wonderful booth. the booth was packed when I was just there to visit you. Tell us what you got going on. What are some of the new things?

TERRENCE TYSALL:              Well now I’m always going to view things through my, fairly biased viewpoint of, of course, training as the training director. So, the entire agency, the whole organization, I mean we’re a membership based organization. We’re a legitimate 501c3. We’re the only one of the large or any of the agencies to be a not for profit. And that’s important to us too. It’s a member based organization. So our job is to walk that tight rope of servicing our members this amazingly eclectic blend of instructional styles and all that and get this organization moving forward.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              So I, I tend to gravitate towards things from training. I mean obviously the booth is wonderful. Our marketing team is, has just knocked it out of the park with that. all of the staff, whether it’s the ladies that are normally on the phone but are now, they’re in the booth answering questions and helping people resolve problems. And then of course, again, the, you know, the guys that are in the back shipping stuff. I mean, it’s such a neat team. we’ve got our, you know, our financial guys are our IT guys, everybody, all, everybody’s everyday comes to work with this mission of, “Hey, how can we service our members?” So the exciting things to me initially, and of course the team has really changed. We’ve had some pretty profound leadership changes in the last almost a rotational basis in the last decade. We’re, we’re hitting some stability and I think we’re getting key personnel positions filled that are going to anchor us for the next decade.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              I mean, we’re sitting in a room next to somebody I hope succeeds me someday. And I hope that the two that I have working with me in the training department are there long after I’ve moved on. But more tangible, one of the first things that comes to mind is in the rebranding and repackaging of our, of our basic level course materials, everything from, the open water class through, two of our freediver levels. We have eight new tecs in the last year. And, there I think the repackaged, I think they flow better. I think they certainly are refreshing and bright looking. And, then in that journey, I’m looking over at Chris laughing, is because in that journey we discovered always trying to vet our materials against the, the touchstones of our industries, such as the U S Navy diving manual, the NOAA diving program, all that.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              sure enough, we found out that our, our tables were not in some cases, as conservative as the new Navy rev seven. And again, you know, you kind of wish, “Oh, why did we look under this rock?” But we did. And then what can we do? We ha we owe it to the membership and our, and our people to see that through. So we had to redesign NAUI dive tables that had been around, I want to say since the 90s, early nineties. And so we incorporated the new a US Navy revision seven stuff in that did 80% of those no decompression times. And, and it just sounds so simple in two sentences, but it took us weeks and weeks and of course, editing. So the books, the new tables are certainly the most updated in the industry. And, and then of course a, a concept that I’m, it’s super near and dear to my heart and I know yours is, is technical training.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              And NAUI was the first of the major organizations to sanction it. And, then I, I think we in our drive for quality and you know, that educational purity and then just leadership styles. I don’t think in previous decades, I mean this is the thirty year of, you know, event with NAUI with tech or more, I don’t know if it was always the priority that, that of course people that are tech interested would like. So yeah, I think a, I think this year the board made a super courageous decision for us to, to do a new alignment with our tech programs. Within the next year, we’re hoping to have updated materials for those. And I think NAUI tech is gonna hopefully be in that preeminent position again where it was.

TEC CLARK:           Oh, that’s great to hear. That’s outstanding. Yeah. You mentioned the dive tables we got into, I was just teaching a course and it was funny to bounce from the and then the Navy and to watch which ones leapfrogging first and who comes out and then all of a sudden one gets ready and it’s going to print and then here comes the next one and it’s never consistent. And so I then when you plug in and you look at the agencies like yourself that are taking US Navy and backing off, that has to change. So I, I applaud that. I think that that is a super responsible way to say, “yep, the only thing that’s constant is change.” And so it’s inevitable and you’re rightfully doing that. I think that’s wonderful.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              Yeah. We had a, we were, I think we’re on rev six of the NOAA manual now and of course, rev seven of the U S Navy diving manual. So, and again, as you know, it’s, it’s, it’s not passe yet, but certainly most people are using other, other table bases in their computers, whether it’s RGBM or, or you know, a VPM or whichever of the, them decompression models. But still in the, at the end of the day, if the electronics fail, you, we need our students from all agencies to be able to reach into that pocket and be able to still use those tables and feel confident with them. So.

TEC CLARK:           That’s fantastic. And you also mentioned the board that the board is driving a lot of the decisions of, you know, where you’re heading and things like that. Tell us about that. I think that that is another unique thing about NAUI, as you mentioned earlier in the 501c3 status and, and so forth. tell us what kind of, a strong point that is when the board can collectively come together to help drive the mission forward and, and all, how, how does that work?

TERRENCE TYSALL:              Well, it’s, it’s neat. I mean, it’s almost like in, I’m going to be just teased mercilessly for this, but it’s almost as if our country has caught up with, with, with NAUI. And what I mean by that is, is I mean it’s democracy in action. You know, this isn’t a big corporation owned by some other big corporation or anything like that. And there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s a, this isn’t an insult to any other traditionally organized companies, but this is a nine member group with international advisors, of, from all around the world. Cause effectively half of our businesses is outside of the United States and growing rapidly. And we have, I want to say it’s 16 representatives just in Europe alone. So it’s this diverse group, you know, different languages, different cultures all coming together for this passion about diving and to set those strategic goals for the corporation, which then we that are fortunate enough to work for NAUI on a day to day basis, try to turn that into a tangible policy and then execute it. So it’s, it’s really, it’s, it’s, we’re, we’re super lucky.

TEC CLARK:           That’s fantastic. Excellent. Let’s talk about freediving, the NAUI free diving program launched under PFI. lots of really cool things there. I’ve been tracking that. and you know, I’m a passionate freediver myself. So, that was really neat to see. Has anything changed now with the freediving program with the change in, in ownership, if you will, with PFI? Does that, does that influence anything?

TERRENCE TYSALL:              It  doesn’t, enter, it doesn’t change our training strategy whatsoever. I mean, you know, this is such a, a small and hopefully mutually respected, you know, industry which we’re in and, and this is where, TDI SDI, since they’ve acquired PFI, we just literally sat down with the, the two entities and had some groups because we knew that would come up at DEMA. And so it’s just, I mean, that’s the thing that, that I think people don’t realize is most of the heads of these organizations at one point or another, we’ve sat in each other’s presence and had one on one conversations and it’s, it’s really nice. So as I’m a obviously training guy, not necessarily a business guy, so I may be a tad naive, but, everybody that, with the new acquisition of PFI has been super, flexible with us.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              And so what we’re going to do is we’re going to continue offering our NAUI, freediver programs effectively, the same courses, but we’re going to make sure that the branding is NAUI only rather than that NAUI PFI Alliance and since that contract is, is expired and they’ve moved on to other things, we’re gonna, you know, we support them. And, and the biggest thing from NAUI’s standpoint in the training department is we just want responsible, freediving out there and cause like you, I just love freediving. It was my first form of diving. It was my, my, I still, it’s still, despite the caves and the deep wrecks and all that, it’s still, I think that the purest form and my favorite because it’s just, you know, so. And I think it’s going to be such an exciting time and freediving.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              And I, it’s so funny, I, this industry wants to pit them against each other, but to me they’re so intertwined that at some point a freediver’s going to want to try scuba and vice versa. I mean, why wouldn’t you want to be that elegant gliding animal going head down into the dark? Exactly. Cause we are, we are mammals. Yeah.

TEC CLARK:           That’s awesome. Good to hear that. So tell everybody how they can follow you and you know, how, how do pros keep up with what NAUI’s got going on?

TERRENCE TYSALL:              Well, I mean obviously we’ll, we’ll go the step over the line and say, well, just become a member. That’s one of the greatest way. We’d love to have everybody do it. And we don’t mind if you’re a member of another organization because most of those organizations in one way, shape or form in their lifetime were an offshoot of NAUI, and so, the neat thing is, all of the major social media outlets and platforms are going to have a NAUI  presence.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              if you find one that we haven’t, you know, then let us know. And there’s of course, the good old, telephone. And then our website, which is a just very simple NAUI dot org. Now that’s a great way to do it. But yeah, we have a marketing department that is on it. We have, the Sources blog of course, that used to be our classic magazine or journal. And now that’s in a blog form, which is really nice. And like most organizations, we’re probably just a striving to keep pace with the latest, developments in social media because they change so rapidly. Yeah. What’s, what’s neat is, with our, change of direction in Europe now, the individual, representatives and, areas in inside individual countries, also have their, individual social media presence for NAUI in each of those regions.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              So whether it’s NAUI Croatia, Romania or, or on and on. So yeah, there’s a variety of, of NAUI source information there.

TEC CLARK:           That’s interesting. Yeah, that would be really beneficial for the different markets that you have there. Well, I’ll, we’ll put these links in the show notes page so that people can, touch base with you all. Thanks so much for this time and the NAUI update. it looks like you’re doing some really great things on that show floor. I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful DEMA show and we’ll check in with you next year.

TERRENCE TYSALL:              Thanks Tec, I appreciate it. Thanks for letting us talk. I mean it’s, we love what we do.

Would you trust this person to teach a loved one to dive. Well, I can’t tell you how many times I had to answer that question as a NAUI instructor trainer because it was just something that we had to do in instructor training courses and I always thought that that was really an awesome filter to go through to become a NAUI instructor. I thought that was really, really cool because you know, it wasn’t about how that someone’s going to get blackballed because a person doesn’t like the way they parted their hair. No, it was truly, truly “would you trust this person to teach a loved one of yours to dive?” And when you have to answer that question, it comes really quick whether or not you say yes or no because – I don’t know about you, but I’m only going to turn over people that I truly trust and respect to be able to teach a loved one of mine to dive.

So I just thought that was a great filter and I’m glad Terrence described that here, in this check-in. So thanks so much. Hey, you know, you can go over to the show notes page over at scubaguru.com where you can find a transcript of this episode and there you can also see a link to NAUI or visit them directly at NAUI.org.

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