The Southwest Council Instructor Program - SCIP

Certification Statistics of the Southwest Council
Instructor Program⁽¹⁾

Information compiled by Dick Wilgus

**Top SCIP Certifying Instructors**

**Instructors Certifying 100 or More Students ⁽¹⁾**
RANKING	INSTRUCTOR	INSTRUCTOR #	# STUDENTS CERTIFIED	CERTIFIED BETWEEN
1	Thad Moore	127	734	1967 - 1973
2	Bill Flagg	4	290	1964 - 1968
3	Russell Miller	46	269	1965 - 1972
4	Richard Reece	124	222	1968 - 1971
5	Randolf Dellis	92	197	1965 - 1972
6	J. Hilton Quine	125	168	1967 - 1973
7	Joe Cody	5	166	1964 - 1965 1 student in 1971(166 total)
8	John Cannon	217	158	1970 - 1972
9	M. T. "Bud" Columbia	77	155	1966 - 1972
10	D. Pat Ryan	7	152	1964 - 1971
11	W. D. Weatherman	229	145	1969 - 1972
12	George Blackstone	171	142	1969 -1971
13	David Robertson	131	139	1968 - 1972
14	W. Nyle Everitt	178	138	1969 - 1972
15	Johnny Narramore	37	134	1965 - 1971
16	Billy Sims	13	133	1965 - 1971
17	Jim Pearson	54	125	1965 - 1971
17	Harry Evans	118	125	1967 - 1969
18	Larry Cleghorn	249	122	1971 - 1971 All students in one year
19	Tom Davis	216	120	1970 -1971
20	Earl Rhodd	143	118	1968 - 1971
21	Jim Kitterman	206	115	1969 - 1971
22	Paul Oberle	261	113	1971 - 1972
23	Herbert Hooten	252	112	1971 - 1972
24	Bill Schroder	264	106	1971 -1971 All students in one year
25	A. E. "Capt" Blood	20	105	1968 - 1973
26	Dan Milner	6	103	1966 - 1967 1 student in 1971(103 total)
Total Students Certified By Top Producing Instructors 64% of All SCIP Students Certified by Top Producing Instructors			4483	All other instructors certified less than 100 students per instructor

Total Dive Students Certified by SCIP ⁽¹⁾

6,964

**Total Dive Students Certified by SCIP ⁽¹⁾**
6,964

Total Dive Instructors Certified by SCIP ^{(1) ,}⁽²⁾

280

**Total Dive Instructors Certified by SCIP ^{(1) ,}**⁽²⁾
280

Historic Certification ⁽³⁾

Estimates Given by SCIP Divers Manual Over Time

Manual Edition/Date

Instructors

Certified

Estimates

Divers

Certified

Estimate

1968 Revised

>140

>4,0000

First 1970 Edition

>200

>5,500

Second 1970 Edition

>225

>7,000

1971 Edition

>300

>10,000

1972 Edition

>300

>10,000

Purple Edition
(1973 - 1974)
Non Dated Edition

>300

>10,000

Blue Edition
(1973 - 1974)
Non Dated Edition

>300

>10,000

Yellow-Gold Edition - Last Edition
(1973 - 1974)
Non Dated Edition

>300

>10,000

">" means "more than or greater than."

**Historic Certification** ⁽³⁾

**Estimates Given by SCIP Divers Manual Over Time**
Manual Edition/Date	Instructors Certified Estimates	Divers Certified Estimate
1968 Revised	>140	>4,0000
First 1970 Edition	>200	>5,500
Second 1970 Edition	>225	>7,000
1971 Edition	>300	>10,000
1972 Edition	>300	>10,000
Purple Edition (1973 - 1974) Non Dated Edition	>300	>10,000
Blue Edition (1973 - 1974) Non Dated Edition	>300	>10,000
Yellow-Gold Edition - Last Edition (1973 - 1974) Non Dated Edition	>300	>10,000
">" means "more than or greater than."

⁽¹⁾This SCIP certification data was compiled by Dick Wilgus from the last known computer records dated 8-8-1973 of the late Bud Columbia. Bud Columbia held the officer positions in SCIP as Secretary and Executive Director for many years. He was also a SCIP instructor. Dick Wilgus, past SCIP Executive Director, now maintains possession of a large part of these files donated to Dick from Bud Columbia.

⁽²⁾SCIP had assigned instructor numbers from #1 through #322 up to the time SCIP ceased to exists. Of these 322 assigned instructor numbers, 42 of all these instructor numbers were actually not issued to any instructor. Dick Wilgus states, "I think these were numbers assigned to seminar applicants as their applications came in for various seminars who did not show up or failed the course. These numbers were never re-used. We just continued up the number chain. If you subtract 42 from 322, we have a net of 280 SCIP certified instructors."

The following are the actual 42 out of 322 instructor numbers that were unused for various reasons to a particular instructor: 35, 57, 67, 68, 69, 71, 105. 107, 109, 112, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 126, 130, 132, 133, 135, 141, 148, 149, 150, 151, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165 166, 167, 168 , 169, 174, 180, 188, 190, 207, 251, 255 and 280.

⁽³⁾Over time, many of the SCIP Divers and Instructors Manuals gave estimates of the total number of SCIP instructors and the total number of SCIP divers that had been certified up to the printing of a that edition. Reason for the discrepancies between these estimates and the actual certification numbers given above could be: Whoever was compiling the records did not have immediate access to the actual certification records; The widespread use of computerized record keeping and "instant" communication really did not exists in the 1960s and 1970s; During the early years of dive certification organizations being created, there was competition between various certifying organizations to gain dominance in reputation on the national and international level. Certification numbers may have been inflated to improve their standing among competing certifying organizations.

What can be gleaned from this table showing certification estimates over time is that between certain years SCIP was generally increasing its instructor and diver certification numbers. Starting in the early 1970s, the growth of SCIP slowed down as it was preparing to merge with NAUI.

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