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Essentials of Tech and Rec at Midwest, Michigan, Ohio
August 27, 2010 to August 29, 2010
This course is designed to cultivate the fundamental techniques required by all sound technical, wreck, and cave diving practice. Essentials of Tech functions as a technical entry point for all previously certified divers and as the prerequisite for…
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Essentials of Tech and Rec at Midwest, Michigan, Ohio
August 27, 2010 to August 29, 2010
This course is designed to cultivate the fundamental techniques required by all sound technical, wreck, and cave diving practice. Essentials of Tech functions as a technical entry point for all previously certified divers and as the prerequisite for…
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Essentials of Tech at Detroit, MI
July 30, 2010 at 6pm to August 1, 2010 at 7pm
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What are your levels of training?
Instructor, Technical Diver, Overhead Diver, Recreational Diver, Scooter, Rescue
Favorite Dive Sites (water, not internet)
Great Lakes Shipwrecks
About me:
James Mott is an instructor for Unified Team Diving International, a DIR based training agency that is committed to building thinking divers. A veteran of the Great Lakes area diving community, James started working at Don’s Dive Shop in 1991 just two years after learning how to scuba dive and has managed Sea The World Scuba Center since its opening in 1996. James’ heart lies beneath the cold waters of the Great Lakes along with the ship wrecks that he loves diving, in addition he also has a new found love for Florida’s cave diving and an occasional dip in shark infested waters. Passionate about educating the diving community and sharing an underwater philosophical base, James’ instruction provides infinite possibilities and extends attainable excellence to all divers willing to reexamine their underwater behavior.
If you are an Active Status UTD Instructor, what classes do you teach?
UTD Instructor- Recreational 1, 2, 3, Essentials, Into to Tech, Tech 1, Overhead Protocols, Scooter 1, Nitrox, Dive Master, Zero Buoyancy, Gas Blender
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Recognizing The Purpose

What is the purpose of taking a class, in particular a UTD class? Is it to receive another card, gain access to a deeper depth, to stay down longer or to go further? Should we enter a class with these thoughts as our goals? Or should these achievements be the bonus we get for improving something even better? The education at UTD strives to teach our students something more than just the namesake of a class.

There is a pretty severe line that separates success from failure and too many developin… Continue

Posted on October 22, 2009 at 1:28pm — 6 Comments

James Mott

Maybe Next Time!

It’s all about paying your dues. I learned many years ago that there was, no such thing as a free lunch, but at $5.95 for a burger, fries and tall draft beer, I’ve gotten pretty close. The winds will not let us dive today. So there I sit, bellied-up to the bar at a local harbor town tavern, my dive team and I toast another round to the sea gods of yesteryear and ask for permission, next time… maybe.

The Great Lakes hold secure the finest treasures a shipwreck diver can seek. These prizes are ve… Continue

Posted on June 7, 2009 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

James Mott

REC 2, Success is Worth the Struggle

I was trying to find a quote that could sum up what we all just went through during my last UTD Recreational 2 class. I had two guys who were very enthusiastic, great spirits, strongly committed but just needed a little more work.
The last Recreational 2 class started off with a lot of issues that needed attention. The UTD program demands the best from our students, granted it is specific to their level… but we still expect a student to perform to a certain ability in or order to achieve a certi… Continue

Posted on April 22, 2009 at 6:54pm — 2 Comments

James Mott

Recreational 2 Report

Recreational 2

April 10-12 was a beautiful spring weekend up here in Michigan and made for some spectacular experience dives for my recent Recreational 2 students, Joe and Josh Hohner. We did the dives at three separate locations, Union Lake, Spring Mill Pond and Gilboa Quarry. Union and Spring Mill gave us about 20ft of visibility, but the experience dives at Gilboa were absolutely amazing. Sunday morning the sun was shining, skies were blue and the viz was 60-80ft+, WOW!

Three days and six d… Continue

Posted on April 15, 2009 at 11:19am — 2 Comments

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Economic Decompression

My fellow scuba divers,
Listening to the news recently, I was shivering and shaking, hiding under the blanket with just my eyes peeking out to watch the report on the state of the world’s economy and how doomed we all were. Then if that wasn’t scary enough… the weather forecast came on next, don’t we ever get a break?!?!
But today as I was driving into the dive shop in 8 inches of show, and I got to thinking… this isn’t that bad. I’ve driven in much worse than this, and then I thought to myself,… Continue

Posted on January 28, 2009 at 9:09am — 5 Comments

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At 7:36am on July 19, 2010, Jan-willem De Bleser said…
Hi James, thanks for the welcome! I've only recently learned about UTD and DIR, but I like what looks like a disciplined and thorough approach. Will definitely be getting in touch with my local instructor.
At 10:49am on July 15, 2010, Sergio Criado said…
Thank You James. I will try to enjoy diving with UTD.
At 7:19am on July 14, 2010, Ray Nixon said…
Hi James, Thanks for the welcome email. I met you a few times at Sea the World when I lived in Brighton, not sure if you remember. I took the Fundamentals class with Brandon and Scot back in 07 and dove the local lakes with Scuba Cult that summer. I've since moved back to South Florida and am looking to move my training forward. I'm very excited about UTD and looking forward to getting started. Oh and BTW, congratulations on your appointment as a UTD instructor! A nice accomplishment for you. Sincerely, Ray
At 5:26pm on July 10, 2010, MARTOS PAGÁN SAURA said…
Looking for prople around Murcia to dive. If you aré intrerested put in contac with me. Martospagan@hotmail.com saludos
At 10:16pm on July 8, 2010, Scott Friesen said…
Hi James,
Thanks.
At 1:52pm on June 30, 2010, Dani Valerio said…
Hi James,
Thanks for the warm welcome!
~Dani
At 4:45am on June 25, 2010, Adrián González Rajó said…
Thanks!!
At 9:19am on June 15, 2010, Chad Whitman said…
James,
Thanks for the hello! I feel so alone here in Texas, not many UTD/DIR divers in the Houston area. This is the primary reason I decided to join UTD and take the tech 1 & 2 course through George Watson in CO, he is the closest instructor to me. I look forward to becoming more involved with UTD in the future. Thanks again
At 1:04pm on May 29, 2010, sam ojiel said…
thnks all ..
At 11:46am on May 25, 2010, Uriel Jorba Gudayol said…
hello Mr James,
I'm so happy to join UTD group,...
I try to perfectionate my tech dives whit the cave1 class, so i'm not sure what I have to do to start my class, I paid it but I can't find it.
so I asck for the spanish version,... is it possible?
thanks
urisub

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