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Bill Mayne writes: >> All of my diving is in the UK, out of an inflatable, on wrecks in the 30-60m >> range. I'm very careful of what I say, because I am part of a BSAC club but >> dive privately with a regular team of three. The BSAC do not agree with what >> we do, (nor understand it!). For this reason I must be very carefull as any >> information learned by the club could be very harmfull to our diving. > > This is shocking to me. How much power does the BSAC have to control > people's diving, and who gave them that power? Not sanctioning things > on club dives is one thing, being harmful to what people do privately > is something else. Bill, I think this goes back to that conversation we had a while ago on diving in Scotland. The issue is really UK wide - it is the club system. The first problem is insurance. Members of the clubs in the UK are covered by 3rd party insurance which is negotiated by the club and you are covered only if you dive within club guidelines. If the club says that the maximum depth is 50m then you are uninsured deeper than that. In fact since on most insurance proposals contain your club affliliation and the presumption is that you dive within club rules I suspect that all insurance is null and void in these circumstances. The second problem is that all training is done within the club system. If the club diving officer thinks that you are being irresponsible or that you are diving beyond your ability he may refuse to train you or threaten you with expulsion unless you curtail your diving habits. This does no good for you reputation within the diving community - which in the UK is fairly small. News travels fast. Some recreational divers are extremely narrow minded/uninformed/over-safety conscious, as you will be only too aware in Florida. Remember that BSAC have refused to endorse the use of Nitrox even though their own study showed it to have beneficial uses. >> 2) Currently using the Buhlmann/Hahn tables (0-250m) but restricted to 63m and >> fairly limited bottom/stop time. > > 250m is way beyond the world record, to say nothing of safety standards, > for air. I presume then that you are talking about mixed gas tables at > some point. I would be most interested in some examples in the 100-120m > range. I was confused by this as well. Callum's tables only go to 63m. Alan
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