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This is the second of two articles designed to provoke discussion on the topic. In the first article in the previous issue of X-Ray Mag, I covered some of the more obvious characteristics. Here are a few more.
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This is the first of two articles aiming to provoke discussion on the topic. Suffice it to say, before I go any further, being a good diver does not just come down to amassing a wallet full of cards and a garage full of cool kit.
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In my previous two articles, I discussed the importance of building a comfort zone and improving the diver’s ability to anticipate problems.
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The impact of diver drop-out is very difficult thing to assess due to a lack of data. The findings discussed in the first article in this series only tracked divers who completed an open water diver course.
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This makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
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Diving is no doubt one of the safest of the adventure sports in terms of the occurrence rate of injury. Diving is also deadly.
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It is this balance of risks that is often hard to understand when something goes wrong and a diver is killed, injured or has a really “scary” moment.
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Ego simply refers to self and how we feel about ourselves. This results in our thoughts, emotions and behaviour. Where an ego is arrogant, overbearing, misguided or delusional, then bad things can and often do happen.
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Over the years, I have had the privilege of being involved in some fantastic teams, sometimes in a leadership role, sometimes as an advisor helping to form a great team, and in others, as a team member.
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But let's look at this seriously for a minute. Why do these things appeal to us? Why do we like to be recognised and to have a group identity?
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Until you get into deep trimix or cave diving training, there is little emphasis in diving qualifications on anything other than meeting performance-based skill standards.
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Accounts of diving accidents hold a hypnotic fascination for us.
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Surprisingly perhaps it is not the most talented that always succeed.
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Much was made of dropout and failure rates, as if the quality of an instructor resided not in how many students passed the course but how many failed.
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The resort would be built by village craftsmen and designed to leave as small an ecological footprint as possible. Materials would be sourced locally, without destruction of either reef or forest.
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It is 5:45 a.m. and my wife gets up in the dark. She is on breakfast duty and kindly wakes me. I am on generator duty. I push the mosquito net aside and climb out of bed. I pull a fleece on over my t-shirt and shorts, and grab a torch.
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