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Actually my dad was quite a bit more than a master instructor, but that was mostly sideways qualifications which let him teach more different and exciting kinds of classes, like shipwreck diving.
It's insane, deadly, and most people who begin the profession because of that thing are disappointed.
Looks a lot more glamorous than it is, and is liable to get you killed IRL
Shipwrecks are narrow labyrinths waiting to collapse on you at the slightest provocation, and it takes specialized training just to not kick up so much silt that you're also blind in a tight self-destructive maze.
When I was a kid, my dad would also go to court as an expert witness in hearings about SCUBA deaths, and most of them were variations on "Let's go into that tight space and panic!"
Basically if you're going anywhere that you can't just swim up to reach the surface, or that it's likely you won't be able to see which way is up, you need to get special training.
Yeah, it's really easy to get turned around underwater, especially if anything's going wrong or visibility is bad.
eg, if something goes wrong with your equipment it's not unlikely your brain will be dealing with an imbalanced set of resources (CO2, oxygen, nitrogen, the various chemicals your body will be pumping that are more useful for ground ape emergencies)
Judgement and reason struggle to stay in charge, so it's useful to have proper procedures and protocols drilled into you until they're second nature.
My dad was well-known for extreme safety courses which included being able to disassemble, fix, and reassemble most of your equipment, underwater, blind.
@Randal'Thor yay! (academics are a type of expert, and for this site to be an expert level q&a about literature (which I'm not even sure is a realistic goal ATM), we need all types of experts. But given this site's age, every expert counts.)
At the end of "The Bounds of Reason", the first story in the collection Sword of Destiny, the second of the first two Witcher short story collections, we see the following exchange between Yennefer and the dragon Villentretenmerth:
"Forgive me my frankness and forthrightness, Yennefer. It is ...
I like to carry paperback books with me in a backpack. I've noticed that this puts a lot of wear and tear on these books. I can't not carry these books in my backpack, but what can I do to better protect these books.
In The Mysterious Benedict Society series, the Whisperer is a machine that transmits thoughts and implants messages in people's brains, usually harmful. And the Emergency is the tense, stressful situation artificially created by the Whisperer that doesn't actually exist.
Are either of these symb...
Neil Gaiman is on record saying the people who captured Morpheus in issue #1 (i.e. Roderick Burgess and the Order of the Ancient Mysteries) are
completely rubbish, English, sort of Crowley-esque, hedge magicians
Do they deserve this evaluation, though? For one thing, the were able to captu...
When the repairs to the house reached a certain level a native American conducted cleansing or blessing ceremony. The native American may have called the person "Carpenter" and one particular line of dialog was similar to "You do excellent work, Carpenter." There was a woman the "carpenter" met a...
#Vertigo teases new '#Sandman' and '#Invisibles' at #ComicCon
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/254070358/vertigo-teases-new-sandman-and-invisibles-at-comic-con https://t.co/AtYsJUjow7
In Albert Camus' book The Stranger, Meursault kills a character known as "the Arab" for no real reason at all. Meursault even acknowledges that he doesn't have to kill "the Arab"
It struck me that all I had to do was to turn, walk away, and think no
more about it.
When he does shoot "the...
@Hamlet Is that your first bounty here that's not to reward an existing answer?
My Lit bounties have been a bit hit-or-miss so far. I think fewer than half of them have attracted answers at all, and only one or two attracted answers that were actually worth the bounty.
Btw, it was my flag that got this question migrated from ELU. I hope everyone here will agree it's appropriate for Lit :-)