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....That I'm teaching scuba to right now. Best group of 14-16 year old bratty rich kids ever. 17 of them and 2/3 have better water skills after two pools than most adults. And calling them bratty couldn't be farther from the truth. The girls are sweet and totally look up to me. The boys are well mannered, hold doors for girls, use ma'am and sir, help the girls with any heavy stuff (they refuse to let me carry a tank, which is absurd). One of the younger boys....guess he's 14, but he looks 12, was my little mirror buddy in the pool today. I saw him copying everything I did, from how I kick to where I hold my hands. So cute.

I'm actually going to be really sad to be done with this class on tuesday.

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Doubt this thread will go anywhere, but I had to share, like a proud mamma.
 
The girl with the blond streak and green shirt broke down crying when I was doing equip assembly. I took the poor thing aside and she told me she had been having "a really stressful week" and that she was just "overwhelmed." Oh to have thre stress of a teenager again...
 
miplank said:
Where is my bikini pic?
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I haven't sent you anything to resize, therefore, you get no payment of bikini pic. I might still need your help there, but I haven't pressed my friend about putting them in another format yet. He's helping me teach this camp and it's been a massive all day event with five hours of pool time and three of class per day. In between I'm eating, showering, and sleeping (in that order).
 
nefertiti said:
The girl with the blond streak and green shirt broke down crying when I was doing equip assembly. I took the poor thing aside and she told me she had been having "a really stressful week" and that she was just "overwhelmed." Oh to have thre stress of a teenager again...
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Are you still considering going into counseling/therapy work?
 
PICK3 said:
Are you still considering going into counseling/therapy work?
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Definitely. I especially want to work with this kind of age group too.

Though, I'm probably taking that job in the mountains before that happens. I went to visit the resort last week and they pretty much sold me. It's a chance to have an ownership share with no up front financial risk, I'd get to be my own boss, and there is real potential for not just turning a nice profit....but genuine wealth. Every business this guy currently owns takes in millions in profit every year. I'll know more within the next few weeks if we're going to move forward.

This class makes it so so hard to make a choice that would take me away from the happiness I get with teaching, but I look at it as a temporary investment where if i play my cards right I can end up back at the beach again in a few years with a significantly higher net worth and possibly the ability to buy out a local dive shop owner.

My heart is still in a helping profession but I am too practical to turn down something with this kind of potential. I'll find a way to keep diving active in my life if I have to dive in the on site lake every weekend to do so.
 
CoBra666 said:
16-18 year olds would be better
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Not for me lol. These kids are young enough, for the most part, to treat me as an elder instead of a peer. Makes them easier to teach, less bullheaded, and they learn SO much faster. As it is the kid in all black has been borderline throwing game at me, 18 year olds would be ten times worse.
 
im surprised they're not all mackin on ya. im rmember puttin the moves on the babysitter when i was like7. i had mario in my bedroom, id always get her to come play then say im cold to get her to get under the covers
 
CoBra666 said:
im surprised they're not all mackin on ya. im rmember puttin the moves on the babysitter when i was like7. i had mario in my bedroom, id always get her to come play then say im cold to get her to get under the covers
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lol well I suppose all the politeness and insisting on carrying my tanks could be seen that way. And one insisted on doing some of the "scarier" skills with me instead of the male instructor.

I just think it's sweet because I see them as children. Older children, but children. Adidas sandals is the only one who is semi blatant about it.
 
lolll..good to see the dive tables look the same....
Got my c card at 12...:) Bunch of underachievers there...

j/k Neff...keep a strong pimp hand with them so they don't get anyone killed.
 
javaguru said:
lolll..good to see the dive tables look the same....
Got my c card at 12...:) Bunch of underachievers there...

j/k Neff...keep a strong pimp hand with them so they don't get anyone killed.
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Lolol dude, a lot hasn't changed since then. The video we have to show is from the 80s and it is horrible.

Dive tables are so antiquated...I pretty much did the exam questions on tables as a group. As long as they understand the overall concept of decompression theory, I've done my job. I'd rather they grasp the theory than be able to go through the motions of a word problem.
 
It's not a stretch to say there are less well to do minority families in this country...And for whatever reason I just don't see many involved in the sport at all other than asians.
 
jnevin said:
That's why you need to teach them to breathe under water.
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They still gotta pass a swim test....lol

The one black guy I have had in any of my classes nearly drowned himself when all he had to do was 8 lengths in no particular time frame (just continuous, but super slow is ok).

My best friend is black and I want to get her certified but she can't swim either :(

RW, it was just the group doing dive table problems haha. I took them out to the lake to do their first two certification dives today and got a lot of really good pictures that I will have access to by the end of the week...I'll email you some of them. Tomorrow I'm gonna have a $2000 camera for underwater pictures. I'm so freaked out, the last time this friend of mine passed his camera to me I almost lost the damn thing because I got focused on fixing an equipment malfunction. THAT one was only worth a couple hundred dollars. Fugg, I'm gonna be so task loaded between looking after the kids, taking pictures, and making sure I don't lose the most expensive UW camera of all time....
 
lol @ hand to hand combat in water....good luck with that haha.

I teach these kids skills with scuba that they can apply to all aspects of their life.

The giant stride entry? You fall the way you look. You'll belly flop if you look down. If you are involving yourself in bad shit, you're life is going to go a bad direction.

Stop, breath, think. Applies in scuba, applies in life. Something starts to slip away from you, you don't panic, you don't give in....you stop your natural urge to seek the quickest and most likely least effective solution, you take a decent number of breaths to slow everything down, you think it out. Then act.
 
yeh i figured if u taught me nef at least my boner would keep me afloat if i failed to swim.. its all glacial water up here in the mountains. noone swims here
 
calveless wonder said:
be sure to bring your cement shoes
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Ironic that you say that.

Got all 17 certified today, but all four dives I did someone had some fucking issue.

I'm pissed, not at my kids though. They all did beautifully given the circumstances. I'm fucking pissed because the other instructor pulled some bullshit just to fuck with me that put students at risk, then had the nerve to tease me about the whole thing and how he didn't help, just sat there and watched. He basically passed off four students so positively buoyant that it took everything I had to give all four a slow ascent to avoid decompressions sickeness or lung overexpansion injuries.

Then on the boat he makes a joke about how hard I was breathing and I was like, "of-fucking-course I was breathing hard, I was swimming with all my strength to keep those kids from bobbing to the surface like corks!" He trid to tell me I should have pulled their purge valves, but I told him letting go of one meant losing one to the surface. There was no way to focus on one without losing another. And the whole fucking time he was just watching.

He thought he'd task load me with my one sort-of diving fear - being underweighted - by twisting it around and playing on how much I care about those kids. It was a completely unrealistic situation, with zero benefit to anyone. I'm so glad they had fun in spite of that shit and didn't know any better.

Aside from that I had a student's tank fall out which we handled fine, and another have mask flooding panic, which again, handled fine.
 
nefertiti said:
Ironic that you say that.

Got all 17 certified today, but all four dives I did someone had some fucking issue.

I'm pissed, not at my kids though. They all did beautifully given the circumstances. I'm fucking pissed because the other instructor pulled some bullshit just to fuck with me that put students at risk, then had the nerve to tease me about the whole thing and how he didn't help, just sat there and watched. He basically passed off four students so positively buoyant that it took everything I had to give all four a slow ascent to avoid decompressions sickeness or lung overexpansion injuries.

Then on the boat he makes a joke about how hard I was breathing and I was like, "of-fucking-course I was breathing hard, I was swimming with all my strength to keep those kids from bobbing to the surface like corks!" He trid to tell me I should have pulled their purge valves, but I told him letting go of one meant losing one to the surface. There was no way to focus on one without losing another. And the whole fucking time he was just watching.

He thought he'd task load me with my one sort-of diving fear - being underweighted - by twisting it around and playing on how much I care about those kids. It was a completely unrealistic situation, with zero benefit to anyone. I'm so glad they had fun in spite of that shit and didn't know any better.

Aside from that I had a student's tank fall out which we handled fine, and another have mask flooding panic, which again, handled fine.
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What the hell? I know nothing about diving, but sounds fucked up. Whyyy is this dude working with kids? And how stupid do you have to be to fuck with someone in a way that could potentially harm them?
 
nefertiti said:
Ironic that you say that.

Got all 17 certified today, but all four dives I did someone had some fucking issue.

I'm pissed, not at my kids though. They all did beautifully given the circumstances. I'm fucking pissed because the other instructor pulled some bullshit just to fuck with me that put students at risk, then had the nerve to tease me about the whole thing and how he didn't help, just sat there and watched. He basically passed off four students so positively buoyant that it took everything I had to give all four a slow ascent to avoid decompressions sickeness or lung overexpansion injuries.

Then on the boat he makes a joke about how hard I was breathing and I was like, "of-fucking-course I was breathing hard, I was swimming with all my strength to keep those kids from bobbing to the surface like corks!" He trid to tell me I should have pulled their purge valves, but I told him letting go of one meant losing one to the surface. There was no way to focus on one without losing another. And the whole fucking time he was just watching.

He thought he'd task load me with my one sort-of diving fear - being underweighted - by twisting it around and playing on how much I care about those kids. It was a completely unrealistic situation, with zero benefit to anyone. I'm so glad they had fun in spite of that shit and didn't know any better.

Aside from that I had a student's tank fall out which we handled fine, and another have mask flooding panic, which again, handled fine.
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too much drama

I'd be running for the xannie bottle!
 
nefertiti said:
Ironic that you say that.

Got all 17 certified today, but all four dives I did someone had some fucking issue.

I'm pissed, not at my kids though. They all did beautifully given the circumstances. I'm fucking pissed because the other instructor pulled some bullshit just to fuck with me that put students at risk, then had the nerve to tease me about the whole thing and how he didn't help, just sat there and watched. He basically passed off four students so positively buoyant that it took everything I had to give all four a slow ascent to avoid decompressions sickeness or lung overexpansion injuries.

Then on the boat he makes a joke about how hard I was breathing and I was like, "of-fucking-course I was breathing hard, I was swimming with all my strength to keep those kids from bobbing to the surface like corks!" He trid to tell me I should have pulled their purge valves, but I told him letting go of one meant losing one to the surface. There was no way to focus on one without losing another. And the whole fucking time he was just watching.

He thought he'd task load me with my one sort-of diving fear - being underweighted - by twisting it around and playing on how much I care about those kids. It was a completely unrealistic situation, with zero benefit to anyone. I'm so glad they had fun in spite of that shit and didn't know any better.

Aside from that I had a student's tank fall out which we handled fine, and another have mask flooding panic, which again, handled fine.
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well there's a Class A douche.
 
My thoughts exactly. He's a coworker of mine with hundreds of certifications (students he's certified) and thousands of logged dives. I can't fucking believe he would pull that shit. I don't care if someone did something that callenged just me. But to put others at risk....fuck you, dude.
 
nefertiti said:
Ironic that you say that.

Got all 17 certified today, but all four dives I did someone had some fucking issue.

I'm pissed, not at my kids though. They all did beautifully given the circumstances. I'm fucking pissed because the other instructor pulled some bullshit just to fuck with me that put students at risk, then had the nerve to tease me about the whole thing and how he didn't help, just sat there and watched. He basically passed off four students so positively buoyant that it took everything I had to give all four a slow ascent to avoid decompressions sickeness or lung overexpansion injuries.

Then on the boat he makes a joke about how hard I was breathing and I was like, "of-fucking-course I was breathing hard, I was swimming with all my strength to keep those kids from bobbing to the surface like corks!" He trid to tell me I should have pulled their purge valves, but I told him letting go of one meant losing one to the surface. There was no way to focus on one without losing another. And the whole fucking time he was just watching.

He thought he'd task load me with my one sort-of diving fear - being underweighted - by twisting it around and playing on how much I care about those kids. It was a completely unrealistic situation, with zero benefit to anyone. I'm so glad they had fun in spite of that shit and didn't know any better.

Aside from that I had a student's tank fall out which we handled fine, and another have mask flooding panic, which again, handled fine.
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Just give us his name - Mitch will take care of the rest. He is as old as he gets.
 
Mostly in the 45-50 foot range. I took them to an easy swim through in the wreck that was about 60 down, but then right back up.

I just got pictures, some of which show the exact fucking incident I spoke of here. Will be on Facebook tonight, ef tomorrow. He took fucking pictures while I busted my ass to deal with his joke. What a dick.
 
nefertiti said:
Ironic that you say that.

Got all 17 certified today, but all four dives I did someone had some fucking issue.

I'm pissed, not at my kids though. They all did beautifully given the circumstances. I'm fucking pissed because the other instructor pulled some bullshit just to fuck with me that put students at risk, then had the nerve to tease me about the whole thing and how he didn't help, just sat there and watched. He basically passed off four students so positively buoyant that it took everything I had to give all four a slow ascent to avoid decompressions sickeness or lung overexpansion injuries.

Then on the boat he makes a joke about how hard I was breathing and I was like, "of-fucking-course I was breathing hard, I was swimming with all my strength to keep those kids from bobbing to the surface like corks!" He trid to tell me I should have pulled their purge valves, but I told him letting go of one meant losing one to the surface. There was no way to focus on one without losing another. And the whole fucking time he was just watching.

He thought he'd task load me with my one sort-of diving fear - being underweighted - by twisting it around and playing on how much I care about those kids. It was a completely unrealistic situation, with zero benefit to anyone. I'm so glad they had fun in spite of that shit and didn't know any better.

Aside from that I had a student's tank fall out which we handled fine, and another have mask flooding panic, which again, handled fine.
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what would've happened if you didn't save the day?
 
nimbus said:
what would've happened if you didn't save the day?
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At that depth, decompression sickness would have been unlikely. Worst case scenario would have been if one of them freaked out and held their breath, which could have caused a lung expansion injury. If they had gotten scared, there could have been a panic situation on the surface. I was more concerned about panic related incidents and keeping everyone together than anything else. One bad day of diving can turn someone off from it forever.
 
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