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> If we as Instructors require certain equipment for certain dives, will boat > operators require same?? Are all instructors as knowlegeable in equipment > performance?? (obviously not). And what about dive operators, do they know?? > Do they care?? Actually no, you forget my posts from last year on this subject.... A dive boat is my water taxi... I do not ask them, and do not want them to assume more responsibility for me than that. A dive briefing would be nice as would emergency O2 and such, but I think life would be simpler (and better) if that's all we expected from dive boats. Oh and some coffee for Jammer. (I don't drink the stuff). So from that point of view it would follow that no dive boat will care what gear I have. A simple transaction took place. I paid them, they took me where we agreed they would so that I could drop in the water as I wished, assuming the risk I felt like assuming. Part of the deal is that they wait around as well until I come back up, or as agreed upon after 3 hours they can call my next of kin and tell them what general area of the ocean to search for me. So by this same token, what I was stressing was not so much that divers have specific gear demanded by certain instructors, we know that doesn't work, so many are apprently, if you believe the hyperbole on the list, demanding horrible gear, no, what I was stressing, is that no matter what gear it is, that the student is FAMILIAR with the gear ahead of time. A cave course need not imply a doubles course. A trimix class or Tech nitrox class need not imply a stage bottle class. Insist those skills be learned outside the class, or at least rename the bloody thing to stage-bottle/trimix. Or offer a class on the skills. But make it so that you are not putting someone, and they are not allowing themselves to be put, in a situation where you are learning so many new things at once. The easiest thing to learn ahead of time IMO, is the gear. Conquer the task loading of the new gear, before you are faced with the task loading of diving under new conditions. Anyway, so no, I'd not want a dive boat to have to become gear police as well. Mike -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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