Alongside him stood Ray Belmont, a volunteer instructor who himself only recently learned to swim, spouting advice and encouragement.
The school has teachers like Edwin Calderon, a math instructor who himself had been an example of the problem and is now part of the solution.
As a young engineer, the instructor had himself helped design the Rolls-Royce Merlin, arguably the most successful aero-engine of all time.
It means something to them that Mr. Hill, now a highly regarded instructor, checked himself into treatment one morning in 1988, not long after he had awoken one morning on a park bench on Grand Army Plaza and found himself covered with a half-inch of snow.
"We just don't miss," said one instructor, who identified himself only as Greg.
The leader of the cult, Shoko Asahara, was a partially blind yoga instructor who declared himself the reincarnation of both Jesus Christ and the Hindu god Shiva.
At the behest of his vocal instructor, Bennett immersed himself in the music of instrumentalists, rather than that of vocalists, which provided him with a solid foundation in jazz.
Among them are Lieutenant Bannon, known as Loot, a languorous American drill instructor who douses himself in Old Spice, and Uncle Starchy, the squadron's laundryman, who — as we witness in a fine scene — self-medicates with snake venom, using a live krait as his syringe.
The videos are quirky affairs where you never see the instructor (usually Salman Khan himself, who personally has created nearly 3,000 of them).
