Tom, we all know that the deep air "standard" is about to be history.
You have done a great job getting a bunch of real jerks to listen to
you, now take it all the way since they are about to have no
alternative. You're the boss, not some dive monkee you trained.





Tom Mount wrote:
> 
> Sue
> Because in the standardss until the recent changes it was required that
> you have experience to at least 48 meters. He had to follow standards.
> Today we have two alternatives either intermediate trimix or the deep
> air route. Either way divers need experience in accent management and
> all the planning and general altnernations in dive style befor going on
> to full trimix.
> 
> The intermediate trimix course has no air.EANx dives deeper than 40
> meters, it has 4 mix dives with two between 40 and 50 meters and two
> between 50 and 60 meters. After this course and a log of 12 additional
> dives (on mix) the student may take the full trimix course which has a
> lot more information in it and additional skills. It has three more mix
> dives two of which must be deeper than 60 meters and no deeper than 90
> meters (in the UK this is rectricted by HSEe to 80 meters approximately)
> 
> Tom Mount
> Davison, Sue wrote:
> >
> >         >Kevin is one of the biggest pushers for iANTD not to have air
> > dives
> >         deeper than 50 meters every since he first came on board. He is
> > the co
> >         author of the new intermediate trimix workbook we are publishing
> > January
> >
> > So why does he insist on having to do deep air prior to doing Trimix.  I
> > had someone contact us to see if we did trimix training without the
> > prerequisite of deep air as he was finding it difficult to find someone
> > in the UK willing to do this - one person he had tried was Kevin.  We
> > have now found someone who will do this for him.  I know you keep saying
> > that deep air is not a requirement - but it still has not filtered down
> > to all the training outlets.
> >
> > Sue
> > 711 2708
> > sd1621@gl*.co*.uk*
> > +44 (0) 181 966 2708
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