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George, Technically trained if through the right agency means being aware of the dangers of narcosis and O2 toxicity and being aware of one's own subsceptibility. Recreational divers have no business diving to deeper depths due to lack of training in the aforementioned areas. I have met divers who believe that narcosis is life threatening at 100'. Narcosis has to be separated into two categories: physiological and physcological. As far as physcology, deep air phobes tend to experience higher levels of narcosis sooner due to their fears and misconceptions. Also people who tend to be a little high strung like yourself are much more likely to get narcosis at depth and panic. Narcosis does affect everyone differently as well from a physiological point. Some people have good days and bad based on their physical traits, ie: smoking, drugs, drinking, etc.. To blanket everyone with generalities is stupid. It has always amazed me that persons such as yourself consider deep air diving dangerous, but make multilple cave dives every year where many more people are injured. As far as training you, the only thing you need help with is your spelling. Try wearing a helmet, it reduces head injuries. Chat with you later, Greg Kuiper -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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