Comments on: Dive Goals: Instructor Certification http://www.thedivingblog.com/dive-goals-instructor-certification/ where divers spend their surface intervals Sun, 19 May 2013 23:17:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jennifer http://www.thedivingblog.com/dive-goals-instructor-certification/comment-page-1/#comment-306444 Jennifer Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:38:14 +0000 http://www.thedivingblog.com/?p=735#comment-306444 Hi, Im taking the International Technical Diving Agency license from my university. Is there any difference between this and PADI license? I'm curious about their difference.... Hi, Im taking the International Technical Diving Agency license from my university. Is there any difference between this and PADI license? I’m curious about their difference….

]]> By: Damon http://www.thedivingblog.com/dive-goals-instructor-certification/comment-page-1/#comment-37240 Damon Thu, 26 May 2011 04:52:41 +0000 http://www.thedivingblog.com/?p=735#comment-37240 "The level of experience you quickly achieve moving through the professional ranks comes along with a level of comfort in the water. This level comes much quicker than just through regular diving." Nothing substitutes time spent underwater to make you comfortable!!! Experience is never quick the clock ticks at constant rate- I notice you do not include your dives logged thus far. You can become and "official" instructor inside of a hundred dives that alone doesn't make you better then somebody who isn't even certified but has more practical experience. Experience+confidence= comfort! certification+cockiness=danger! “The level of experience you quickly achieve moving through the professional ranks comes along with a level of comfort in the water. This level comes much quicker than just through regular diving.”

Nothing substitutes time spent underwater to make you comfortable!!!
Experience is never quick the clock ticks at constant rate- I notice you do not include your dives logged thus far.

You can become and “official” instructor inside of a hundred dives that alone doesn’t make you better then somebody who isn’t even certified but has more practical experience.
Experience+confidence= comfort!
certification+cockiness=danger!

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