Danielle M.
1 Reviews
If you are a beginner diver BEWARE. Our instructor was not only rushe…
If you are a beginner diver BEWARE. Our instructor was not only rushed and flustered but he was actually mean to some of us. For most of the time he would rush us and threaten us saying “if we are too slow some of you will need to take privates”. He must have said that 10 times while we were in the water doing stuff for the very first time. On the first day of lessons he was so long winded in the classroom that he ran out of time for the water instruction and pushed a lot of it to the second day which made the second day miserable. He spent so much time showing us all the different computers he has for diving taking them out, etc and so much time talking about all the equipment we should purchse because “rental equipment won’t be great”. Meanwhile at least half the class was just trying out scuba for the first time and will be renting a lot of equipement so we didn’t need detiailed instructions on all the different types of wetsuits and if we did we could just have asked the sales crew upstairs. This is all to say that a ton of time was wasted in the classroom on this stuff and the students suffered the consequnces because that put the instructor behind and he just yelled and rushed us the entire time we were in the water. We went over 30 minutes on the first day and he told us to come early the next day and he would have the backdoor unlocked for us.
Brings me to the second day. He did not in fact have the door unlocked and we were all early and he opened the door 3 minutes before 8 so we rushed to lessons for no reason. Then right out of the gate he said we had a lot to cover in the water and we needed to rush. We were all trying to get our gear together, then set up the gear while he yelled at us to put on our wetsuits then yelled at us when we walked away from our gear to do just that.
In fact, the instructor said to me on the second day that he could make my life hard for the rest of the day if he wanted to. My 13 year old son couldn’t believe that the instructor just threatened me. I just breathed through it as we didn’t have time to take another class because we are scheduled for our open water instruction in 2 weeks. However, I regret not walking away right then and there because the rest of the day just got worse from there. Also, we were in the pool from 8:10am until after 3:00pm on the second day with no water or food break. 7 hours and half of us were shivering and hungry and tired. It was HORRIBLE how fast he made us do some of the exersises while threatening us that we might have to stop and seperate and take private lessons later. If you are nervous like I am please do yourself a favor and do not take classes here – or at least not from Ron. While he is extremely knowledgable he is not for beginners or teenagers. He would make fun of us for wanting lunch at 2:00 and said if we got out of the water and took our equipement off we couldn’t go back in. Thank goodness Barry, a trainee, was there to help on the second day or I think Ron would have lost it and might have hurt some of us with trying to juggle 6 people.
There is so much more I can write but this review is already too long. In short, this is NOT a class for beginners as they advertise. If you can go to another school I would. They were insenstive, rushed, pushy on selling you things and not concerned for your wellbeing. I am so shaken up by this class and the treatment that I received. – via 
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