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With reference to my original posting. Yes I realise that BSAC and many other agaenies are 'slow' to take up the notion of mixed gas diving. However as a BSAC member I am unaware of any legislation they have submitted to their members suggesting.. voiding of membership if their members use mixed gases, with appropriate training and tables. BSAC clubs all have to meet a certain criteria.. for many years members or prospective members have complained about BSAC club A having its members swim 3miles under water on a single breathe, before being considered for membership... most clubs have many non-standard/additional requirements of their membership. However when the case is pushed, BSAC submits that they list certain requires, including an xray which I find here with ACUC is 'only on a doctors recommendation'... for some in the UK its a real 'pain' to get the xray.. some hap on this and complain. Here we have someone quoting that BSAC insurance wont cover then outside the tables on mixed gases... I'm not aware that my BSAC insurance would cover me in any great respect inside the tables on air... its third party insurance.. Some clubs have suggested for years that teh insurance should be scrapped, after all.. we don't need insurance.. nothing ever happens to us...! The last BSAC comment I heard repeated their stand, BSAC members (original 1 million pounds) have third party insurance for 2 million pounds, as part of their membership deal. Along with the training of BSAC and the monthly DIVER magazine. The magazine carries other forms of insurance, at reasonable rates to divers... the kind of insurance divers hear seem to use, and expect. For our 17+pounds a year any insurance deal is a bonus. Some BSAC clubs don't have an actual membership fee, other have, Special Branches meet different criteria than normal branches... Things in the UK and here are very different... that will always be the case, my instructors on seeing the Jepperson manual, when I took a copy home at Xmas, thought some of the skills etc. old.. things BSAC had been doing years before... time will tell, BSAC will change.. but only the membership can change it.. we elect the officials.. In my experience since diving is a small community in the UK several clubs with differing ideals tend to spring up from within each other, the poster of the original mail 'complaining about BSAC', might well find other BSAC clubs not so 'enforcing' as his. However BSAC as an organisation sweep out the ide of macho men in rubber suits a long time ago. I know I have to report all excursions to my DO before the dives.. not necessarily specifics but launch point, time, return time etc. SOme other BSAC club members I know, don't like that way.. so they switched to the PADI club... Its horses for courses... With reference to my Aladin/BSAC 88 comment. Let me explain further. Although the tables do differ in significant areas I find in their application, a much safer/conservative dive planning on the either of these, than on the US Navy or even on the DCIEM tables. As part of an ACUC advanced lecture, the students are taught DCIEM over US Navy to show the difference in repetitive dive groups... on all these dives the '88 and Buhlman were more conservative/penalising as far as decompression stops were concerned. As well as SI timing and RNT. On a recent diving at Tobermory in Ontario I had the misfortune to witness an incident with BSAC divers, I'm not saying my agency is better or worse.. for me they are preferred.. however as with the standard 'its not the certification its the instructor' comments.. it also greatly holds for the diver too.
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