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Hi everyone! Me: qualified PADI AOW and FUAI ** (Federation for Underwater Activities in Israel, a CMAS member) back in 1983. Did not go diving again for many years, at first due to lack of finances, then due to ignorance about the availability of diving in the New York area. Now a fanatic, but taking my time to build up my expertise. My first focus was on self sufficient diving, in part because a lot of my diving recently has been on business trips, where I have only met a "buddy" on the dive boat. After one learning experience in Florida, I decided to be 100% self sufficient all the time, from now on, period. I now always dive with a 30 cu. ft. pony - which gives my wife conniptions that I lug it around on vacation, but that's how I feel comfortable. I am still a wet-suit and tables diver. Renting the Skinnydipper on vacation in Hawaii was great, it really showed how on a multi-level dive you get a lot more safe time. But for New York/New Jersey, I am on the DCIEM tables until I can afford a dry suit, doubles, and two Aladin Pros (or whatever is best by then.) In some senses I am a technical diver already - I am diving light deco profiles on the DCIEM sport tables - but on the other hand typically PADI would calculate those same dives as "no decompression" but require a safety stop. I far prefer the philosophy of having tables that can be used as written - a stop is a stop is a stop. I am comfortable with light penetration, and low and no vis dives. This season I plan on extending my range of decompression diving, and of penetration diving, step by step, always maintaining complete self sufficiency, within the limits of my 80' cu. ft. singles (pony purely for redundancy). This winter I will most likely move up to Rescue diver, and I am also organizing an 02 administration course with Dr. Hilary Viders in Bergen County, NJ (tentatively November 6 & 7). Nitrox certification will probably follow next year. I am not sure that I want to do mixed gas diving with the current open circuit systems - by the time that I am ready for mixed gases, I believe that the closed circuit systems may be ready for me. In downloading the archives, I can see some debate about whether or not this list should exist. I agree largely with the observation that any discussion of technical diving in rec.scuba tends to lead to flaming, so this list provide an otherwise unavailable forum. My special interests for this forum are: the new rebreathers and other mixed gas technologies, extended range diving on air and nitrox, and decompression theory. I would be very interested in collaborating on translating published algorithms into usable programs. Safe Diving Wrolf Courtney First Boston Corporation My opinions are not (212) 322-7017 Park Avenue Plaza my employer's. uunet!csfb1!wrolf New York, NY 10055
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