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>>My interests include wreck diving, underwater hunting, TRIMIX, >>rebreathers, and deep diving. I plan on taking a TRIMIX class >>later this year, or early next year. >> > Anthony Martinez wrote: >Whoa!.... slow down a little. Jon, the most important thing you can do for >yourself is to make sure your experience is commensurate with the training >and level of diving you do now. Do you dive with stage bottles or even >doubles? Have you done any planned deco dives? Are you comfortable with gas >switches? These are the kinds of things you have to be confident about >doing/using. Trimix takes these elements and adds a different bottom mix to >enable you to go deeper. You don't want to be getting comfortable with new >equipment and techniques on a deep mix dive. That is not the place. You >want learn about doubles/stages/deco before you start a trimix course. You >should be experienced with them under many different circumstances before >moving on. If you want to take courses, take a technical nitrox and a deep >air course first. Even then, dive as much as you possibly can. Training >teaches you how, but practice and experience will bring your ass back >alive. TRUE! I should have mentioned that I must first complete a decompression certification and deep diving certification and log a couple hundred of these kind of dives to qualify for the TRIMIX class. My instructor won't accept "patch" divers (e.g., people who take the advanced class after the openwater class, and call themselves "advanced" divers after 15 dives or so SCARY!). Training gets you half way there, experience gets you home in one piece. Jon
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