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Tom Mount tells Phil:
> Based on you providing proof of the above assumptions,If you came to me
> to do your training and thius is more than within standards, You would
> need to do the technical EANx lectures and written exam (also the
> written exam from advanced deep air if not cave certified as it deals
> with equipment config, narcosis gas matching dive planning etc.) ...

Based on the amount of common ground between the cave course and the
Advanced Deep Air/Technical Nitrox courses (both as you note above, and
as I found when I took Cave after those others; I found having already
done a lot of stuff helped a lot, while some classmates could have used
more prior experience in doubles) and on J. Scott Landon's recent rant in
the Ginnie/DPV thread about lack of basic skills in cavers, I'd like to
respectfully suggest that it might be beneficial to move all the common
material into a single introductory course, and make that a prerequisite
in both the cave and the tech nitrox/trimix directions.

This would likely cover equipment rigging, spending enough time in doubles
to be really comfortable, lots of work on basic skills, bouyancy control,
probably a blackout drill and some basic reel work and a stage bottle
carry and gas planning and everything else that should be in a serious
openwater advanced course and introduction to technical diving.  There'd
be no need to go past 130' or into overhead or use anything but air
(although EAN32 would be useful, for those who have basic nitrox).  This
would be a skills course, not a deep diving course.

There would be a big advantage for people who have to drive 1200 miles to
get to Florida for cave, since there are IANTD instructors in most parts
of the world and people could have the skills completed and be ready for
a cave course before taking that trip.  Cave and technical nitrox
instructors could then expect more of students starting their courses.

-- 
Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*>
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