Learn 2 Scuba

posted by instructor on Mar 19

So P.A.D.I. has released a O2 course, why do I want to teach it when there is a well known DAN O2 course? Is it an good?

I called P.A.D.I. and asked if there course was any good ad I got the standard answer why of course we have the best course out there….SO I switched my distinctive specialty to the P.A.D.I. O2 specialty bought the instructor and student manual I why not give it a try. I just got my material in the mail and started to read the out line and get familiar with it.  Wow that is looking pretty nice.  I like that fact that this course can integrate into the P.A.D.I. Rescue Course.  You just need to add part to the lecture and practical skills and you are done.  The student manual looks great, it is well written and flows very nice.  Tonight I am going to have my 7 year old daughter read the student manual to see how kids like it and what she would want different in the book.

The negative of the course.  There is no video for this course as of yet.  There is no digital version of the instructor course, so you need to keep the paper copy.  These are the only negatives of the course.

What is need to get certified as a P.A.D.I. O2 course.  First you must read the manual, complete the knowledge reviews.  Then go work with P.A.D.I. O2 instructor and get some additional information after reviewing the knowledge reviews get  answers to the questions you missed.  Then we get to the meat of the course.  You need to get your hands on the O2 equipment and complete the four skills.  I personally want to add this to all of my P.A.D.I. Rescue courses because I believe that O2 is the answer to most first aid issue like D.C.S. and non diving issues like Trauma, Heart attacks, strokes to name a few.

posted by instructor on Mar 16

Why did P.A.D.I. come up with the Digital Underwater Photo course? Were the bored or was it a great idea?

I must say the book that P.A.D.I. wrote is one of the best underwater photography books out  there.  I have been on shoots for other agency photo books a few years ago, and the pictures and techniques that PA.D.I. has in there book are great.  I am an instructor of this course and it is a blast to teach.  There are two parts to it.  On is in the pool and the second one is in Open Water.  This means that you can teach this course to snorkels as well as Divers.  Also this course can be taught in the winter in the pool ad finished up in the Open Water when the water warms up.

At first I thought that this course had broken down to basic, but after my first class I relied that not everyone has used a computer and some did not realize they need one to down load their pictures in order to take more or to modify their pictures.  I do believe that the Digital Underwater Photography (DUP) class will be a great class to teach people of all ages, espically since they can see what the picture looks like before they surface with some cameras.  I hope everyone who read this blog, at least takes part I of the P.A.D.I. digital underwater course so they can see how easy and fun it is to take pictures underwater.