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Can you tell me why air at 54m is a bad option? When I did my course (I had an
instructor who had done it the same way for the last twenty years) I was told
that the limiting factor for air was the PPO2 reaching 1.4atm for exertion and
1.6atm for resting deco.
Is air a bad option because of the narcosis effect or is it for another reason.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Sallot [mailto:sallot@mi*.co*]
Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 1999 10:53 AM
To: Capt JT; techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: He is "mike rodriquez"?
Capt JT wrote:
> example)Those of us who run trips deal with this problem every year.And its
> getting worse.
If, in your opinion, the diver is not qualifed to go on one of your
trips, or do a particular dive, then don't take his money and keep him
off your boat.
> This list promotes training on the net and some who get this
> internet training get it turned around or should not move on to tech
> diving until a time they able to handle the mental stress of these kinds of
> dives.
Captain my captain..
Would you rather these "technical diver wanna-be's" go to some
half-baked instructor who can barely wake up before noon because he's
too hungover and get "certified" and taught some seriously dangerous
stuff (like "my air is my air" or "I am the most important diver" or
"it's ok to leave your buddy in an emergency" or "54m on air is
acceptable")? At least some people are trying to answer these questions
with correct answers.
> Gear just like these home made tables are part of a divers tools , if
> a diver does not have the skill to began with there is not anyway to
> configure his gear or kind of gear to make him a tech diver.What am I
> saying is this- the gear does not make the diver , but the diver is the key
> to the gear.Proper gear will surely enhance what is already there , but
> will not make him a good diver.
This is the case with anything. I can go out and buy a formula 1 race
car, but chances are I won't take home the checkered flag at Indy. You
need to put the time in. The problem (and that Mike Rodriguez guy was a
great example of it) is that there are a bunch of misconceptions out
there.
> As I have said before You Can Not Learn to
> Dive on this LIST , at Some Point You Must Get in the WATER
Agreed 100%.
Ken
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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate
is first-rate."
-- Doris Lessing
(British writer)
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