Student Feedback
Youth Divers
Mr. Steve and Ms. Judy (Splash teaching Staff),
Thank you for teaching me to SCUBA Dive.
In Belize, I finished my Open Water Diver
Course. I had a really good instructor, just
like you! I got to see stingrays, spotted
eagle rays, octopi, nurse sharks, big
groupers, moray eels, big tarpon and lots of
other fish. I thought it was really fun. We
dove in Hol Chan Marine Reserve and "off the
reef". I went to 40+ feet and really liked
it. I made a total of six dives. I had to
enter using a back roll, that was the hardest
part.
Mom and Dad rented an underwater camera and took pictures when we dove. I am sending a picture of me with an underwater friend.
Thank you for teaching me to dive!
Nick
Splash's President, Ron Carmichael
replies to Nick: We hope to see you
underwater and continuing the underwater
adventure in 2007! Great job,
Junior Open Water Diver!
Rebreather Training
Subject: Mt. Storm Photos
Ron,
Thanks from Karen and me for a great new
dive experience this weekend high in the West
Virginia mountains. The weather was miserable
and included sleet, hail, very chilly winds
and maybe even a little snow. A new dive site
for us and new equipment (rebreathers),
together with your dive expertise, made a very
memorable, albeit miserable weather, dive
weekend. The attached photos are yours for use
as you see fit, Web site included. They do not
truly show just how damn cold it really was
but we shall remember! Thanks for being a
great dive instructor. We want to go to
Florida with you for cave diving soon.
Bill and Karen
Rob Hemingway writes:
I highly recommend the Drager Dolphin
rebreather PADI cert offered by
Splash. My recommendation is due, in no small
part, to the high caliber of
instruction! At no time during my instruction
did I feel like I was just
being "taught from a book". Rather I felt as
though I was being taught by a guy who "could
have wrote the book himself".
Rebreathers are a more technical style diving
and learning from someone who
is a veteran technical diver left me with a
great deal of confidence and a
real sense of accomplishment, THANKS!
Rob Hemingway
Mike Geldner writes:
My experience with SCUBA diving began in 1968 during a 3 day vacation to the
Bahamas with my Father. At 13 years old, I had a 1/2 hour "lesson" on a boat
on the way out to a shallow reef after which we threw on the tank and hit
the water! That was an incredibly exciting experience that hooked me on
SCUBA for life.
After 30 years of diving, learning to use the Draeger Dolphin rebreather
allowed me to relive some of that original excitement! Our instructor and
dive master, Curt Harpold, provided excellent training on all aspects of the
operation and maintenance of the Draeger Dolphin and focused on safety as
well as the benefits of using the Dolphin. Curt's extensive diving
experience and his wide and deep knowledge about diving in general, and
rebreathers in particular, was a huge benefit during the training.
My first experience using the Dolphin was as unique and exciting as my first
dive, way back in 1968. I'm really glad that I decided to take the course
and expand my skills.
Michael H. Geldner
Chilly Willy Sun. Jan. 11 by EarlGlock