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Some suggestions: 1) Learn to remove a regulator from your mouth and replace it, (without panic, or stress). 2) Stop an uncontrolled decent while minimizing your finning towards the floor (without panic, or stress). 3) Understand how the volume of air in your lungs at any instant in time affects your trim (without panic, or stress). 4) Understand the concept that equipment fails, and how to deal with switching to alternate or backup equipment (without panic, or stress). 5) How to properly inspect you gear before you leave your house to go diving, and again before entering the water (without panic, or stress). 6) Develop a constant awareness of your buddy(s) location and status via communication at all times (without panic, or stress). 7) Learn to pass off the octopus (or long hose) in an OOA situation (without panic, or stress). 8) Be able to understand and take the responsibility of getting your dive buddy(s) to the surface alive when he/she is in an emergency situation (without panic, or stress). 9) Understand the concept of how your projected surface area to the water and gear arrangement affects your ability to move through the water. 10) And obviously, develop an understanding of your U/W environment and the inherent hazards of any given dive site (some hazards are not so obvious). 11) For more aggressive cave diving, understand that all of the above could equate to a 0.7 SAC rate if not completely understood and/or mastered (no claims made here). Bill Lais, E.I. - Engineer II Handex of Florida - Mt. Dora, Fl. 352/735-1800 ext. 166 -----Original Message----- From: Matt Zimmerman [SMTP:mzimmerman@uc*.ed*] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 1:27 AM To: cavers@cavers.com Subject: Candidate improvement Towards the improvement of the overhead environment candidate, would some of the more experienced cavers like to state opinions of what skills a candidate should have mastered? Or what kind of situations that the candidate should be able to handle? Any suggestions on improving these diving skills before entering training? General advice like "work on your bouyancy control" is not really helpful. Matt Zimmerman Center for Molecular Medicine East Rm 3020 University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla CA 92093-0684 tel (619) 534-8803 fax (619) 534-7286
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