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<sorry to repost this.. the subject was hosed on the first round>

 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:
 > 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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