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Hi Tom,

Does this type of training make sense? I don't think 
this was part of the curriculum when I went through the mill.

Why not require the student to be in Good++ physical condition
so that this type of situation is very unlikely?

I have never been so tired that I could not maintain technique.
I have been tired enough that I had to slow my pace down a bit.

(As a silly question... Why not train them to maintain technique
 when they suffer from hypothermia? See what I'm saying? )

later,
Jeff


> 
> You wrote: 
> >
> >173 minutes in Peacock????  My God, Tom, why not let your students use 
> fins.
> >These dives would go a lot faster if you did. :-)
> >
> >At 11:14 AM 10/7/96 -0700, IANTD wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Het 
> Trout
> Why don't you swim with us sometime, the students I do long dives with 
> also swim relatively fast. They are not as fast as those of us who are 
> seasoned in swimming in caves but the first leg of the dive was under 
> 55 minutes down the Peacock peanut tunnel to cvhallenge with 10 minutes 
> are so being spent on drills enroute. thus if it had been a 
> contininious swim it would havebeen about 45 minutes. On the return 
> they did the crossover back to olsen and then repeated the circuit 
> again and then went up and did a few drills. The peurpose is to train 
> them for long dives and to maintain technique once tired. This class 
> did several big dives for students, and had a total of over 800 minutes 
> of cave bottom time in the class so I think they did ok for themselves.
> 
> At least it is a good starting point and is a relistic beginning for 
> cave diving 
> 
>  Tom

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