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A couple of incidents on not-that-Deep Air persuaded me to seek trimix =

training.
I was lucky to have an excellent instructor (TDI, no less) who trained me=
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without insisting on deep air practical stuff.

Here, in the UK, most divers are BSAC, which frowns upon diving deeper =

than 50 metres (167 fsw), but doesn't accept trimix at all. Ex-buddies =

are diving on air in the 50m range and consider me dangerous for using =

mixed gas. If they have an incident they usually either stop diving deep =

for a while or stop diving at all.
Most incidents aren't reported.

If the current trends continue, the public who don't know the difference,=
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will call for blanket regulation.
I had intended to attach the text of an article in a well-respected =

sunday paper as an example of the way things are going. Is it legal for =

me to do that?

In order to highlight the dangers of deep air to everyone, we have to win=
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over the training bodies by reasoned argument. Some are receptive some =

aren't, so there's a challenge.

A deep dip in a chamber may just give people a taste of narcosis (first =

fix) in a safe environment, so may not help. It didn't help me.


Ewan Rowell, Aberdeen
EwanRowell@co*.co* =



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