Mailing List Archive

Mailing List: techdiver

Message Display

Kevin Rottner <Kevin@So*.co*> writes:

> If we really wanted to improve dive safety ( and if you really want to shake
> up the recreational SCUBA world )  lets take a trip to Kevin-land, where I
> make up all the rules:
> 
> Open Water / Beginner : Course is taught and students are trained on EAN 36.
> Certification Card issued specifically states certified to dive to 60 FSW,
> and obtain only EAN 36 fills. ( 1.02 PO2, 1.80 PN2 ) Students are DRILLED TO
> OBSERVE MOD.

As a recently certified diver, I don't have much to offer here.  But
on this topic I do know something.

If you were offering such a course, you would definately have takers,
though I think you'd have an interesting marketing issue and maybe a
political one with local shops as well.  Hell, if I'd known about the
IANTD OW/nitrox course before I started, I'd have taken it instead.

Personally, I don't understand why nitrox is considered an advanced
skill.  It seems bass akwards to me as you've implied in your post.
When I "advance", I expect to be diving deeper, at which point, as I
understand it, nitrox quickly becomes a liability.  So why aren't I
diving nitrox *now* as a newbie when it's of some use?

I see only two potential disadvantages to OW nitrox.

1) If I blow my floor depth, I'm at higher risk with nitrox than with
   air, whether I'm supervised or not.

2) If I'm diving nitrox too, (assuming all *current* instructors dive
   nitrox), then my instructor doesn't have a nitrogen tolerance edge.

--rich
--
Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'.
Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.

Navigate by Author: [Previous] [Next] [Author Search Index]
Navigate by Subject: [Previous] [Next] [Subject Search Index]

[Send Reply] [Send Message with New Topic]

[Search Selection] [Mailing List Home] [Home]