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Stephen Gillies <max@ma*.ne*.au*> wrote:

> a while back I commented on tasks instructors use to
>  make divers deal with stressful situations in the upper
>  levels of training (ie- speciality and technical divers).
> 
>  After some private dicussion I have "seen the light" and
>  I'm comming around to the idea that putting divers under
>  stressors in a controlled environment is a good lesson
>  which helps them deal with real life emmergencies in much
>  the same way practicing rescues makes you a better rescuer.
> 
>  (Australian Navy Clearance divers get this same training
>  so they can deal with strange situations as well)
>  
>  So I'm interested in tasks which instructors use to put
>  divers under stress and what the instructors hope the
>  student learns from the stressful tasks.

I am not an instructor, never was, never will be. One thing that the
private, fiercely independent (of _anyone_) Dive Club that I belong to
does when taking a newbie to potential narcosis territory is advise that
the newbie will be specifically tasked at depth to ascertain their
narcosis tolerance or otherwise. Then the attending diver/s do nothing,
to the amazement of the newbie, whose mind is _fully_ concentrated. This
works really well.
(snip)

> Some day we may discover how to make magnets that can point
> in any direction.

Any u/w compass rather adjacent to the odd few steels? :-)

Christian
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