RAID’s UNIQUE QA SYSTEM HELPS…
Playing in water can be dangerous. There are risks associated with diving of every description. This is something we have to accept and learn to deal with if we want to go diving.
The goal of any RAID instructor is to deliver this message, but, more importantly, it’s to dive students the knowledge, skills, and techniques to manage those risks. Making them disappear is impossible. The best any of us can do is to identify, mitigate, and avoid, but risk is always a factor to consider.
RAID professionals are chosen to represent the agency and to deliver the RAID brand of training for many reasons: skill, empathy, knowledge, spirit, desire. These traits are probably shared by the majority of instructors across the diving industry, but we try to go further.
In part, student safety is a function of standards and sticking to them. RAID’s standards exceed by far the minimums accepted as ‘good enough’ across the industry. Shortcuts, courses that are hurried and packed to the maximum possible, are discouraged and policed heavily. RAID students, every one of them, takes part in that process by default. They are required to complete a questionnaire about their training as part of the final course assessment. That is 100 percent of students, not a select few.
RAID cannot guarantee student safety, no agency can, but we come closer than most to being able to make that promise.
