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Brian , I agree with this approach. I did it over a logn time, as I did
all of my diving over a long time. I can remmber when I would not go
past 70 feet deep for anything. I can remmber when I would run from boat
to boat to get more dives in , since they would not let me dive all day
long on one boat. I can remmber spending entire days diving on the flats
in the Bahamas.

Brian Fairbanks wrote:
> 
> George just nailed it.  That's probably the best advice I can think
> of.  I spread my cave training out over 2 years and felt quite a step
> ahead of the others when returning for the next class.  Learning how
> do dive in an overhead environment, with doubles, while perfecting
> your buoyancy among other things is not something you can adequately
> learn over an eight day period.
> 
> Brian Fairbanks
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kirvine@sa*.ne* <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
> To: Matt Zimmerman <mzimmerman@uc*.ed*>
> Cc: cavers@cavers.com <cavers@cavers.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 6:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Candidate improvement
> 
> 
> 
>      Matt, if you really want to learn this, show up first, see
>      what they
>      teach you, go back and pratice that in open water, and then
>      come back
>      and finish the course(s). Spread it out.
> 
>      Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>      >
>      > 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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