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A couple years ago I did a technical nitrox class and some deep wreck diving
with Billy Deans at Key West Divers. As far as I know, his operation was the
model for others, and is still probably the best. He is quite expensive -
expect to pay $200 for a charter to the Wilkes-Barre, for example, or about
$2000 for a full trimix course (including deep air and tech nitrox).
My advice to you would be to get completely comfortable diving with double
tanks and a drysuit (if you don't already use one in wreck configuration
before plunging into deep or wreck penetration diving. Better yet, get used
to dragging a stage bottle or two (once you are comfortable doing this,
trimix diving will be relatively easy). There is a lot of stuff to get used
to when you switch to doubles and wreck gear, and narcosis and the overhead
environment only reduce your ability to deal with the task loading.
Probably the best way to get experience with doubles and penetration skills
is to take a full cave course. Alternatively, you can get involved with
people who wreck dive regularly, and learn from their experience. Gary
Gentile's "Advanced Wreck Diving Guide" and "Ultimate Wreck Diving Guide" are
pretty good resources for basic equipment and procedures. The first and third
issues of Aquacorps have a lot of good info on decompression and deep diving
equipment and procedures.
The IANTD deep diving course probably covers most of what you need to know
here (comments, Greg?), but I haven't taken it myself. NACD also offers a
wreck diving class; I have no idea how good this is.
John
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From: Oliver Edwards on Wed, Jul 6, 1994 12:26 PM
Subject: new diver intro,tech training questions
To: techdiver@opal.com
My name is Oliver Edwards. I've been lurking on this list for a month now
and have seen several thought provoking items. For example: mild excercise
during decompression, cumulative O2 toxicity, danger of losing the anchor
line during wreak dives. By the way, I felt the recent "Wreak Diving Help"
thread was excellent.
I'm a NAUI ADV certified diver with 3 active years experiance and 130
logged dives. I do most of my diving off of N California coast although I
have been able to travel to several warm water destinations.
I'm becoming more interested in technical subjects of diving as time goes
on. In particular, I'd like to learn more about techniques for deep diving,
wreak penatration, and self sufficiency.
Can someone suggest where I can find information about technical diving
training? I get the impression that the nitrox courses cover a lot of
information that one would want to know, even if thier not using EAN. How
do the several NITROX certifying agencies compare? The only technical
diving courses I'm familure with now are nitrox and cave diving. Are there
others? Are there certifying agencies that sponsor those courses?
Later this year I'm going to be diving in Florida. Are there some good deep
diving and/or wreak penatration courses taught in the Keys? Is anyone
familure with courses taught by Key West divers?
Thanks in advance for the guidance.
Oliver
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