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Wrolf Courtney wrote about divng doubles with no BC: > A few really old-time divers do do it. It works very well if you are > correctly weighted. However, if you are overweighted, then you wind up > with too much air in your suit, possibly leading to the legs up > uncontrolled ascent situation. The old timers do that (the one's with no clue anyway) because when they started diving there was no such thing as a bc. The last thing you want to do is add excessive amounts of gas to a drysuit. > But I do not think that any course, or any card, can do more than open > the gateway for you. Most of your learning has to be in the real world, > no matter what the subject. Instruction from competent teachers give you a good foundation. Nothing grows in a vacuum. > Every dive I try to learn something. Think of it as putting something > into a backpack. Each dive, I add something to the back pack. Then > when the day comes when you need it, you have a full back pack. Sure, that makes sense. Just always consider the source of said info. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark Melendez melendez at bigfoot dot com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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