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Christy, Welcome to the list, sorry you came on during a flame war. In any event, get technical nitrox under your belt as soon as you can, and a great way to learn tech diving would be to make a trip to Pompano Beach Florida and hook up with Ocean Diving Schools---Owner Jim Mimms is running the best tech diving business in Florida, with most of the top tech and cave divers on his boat regularly, as well as by far the coolest tech dives anywhere in the world. If you want to learn tech diving the right way, this is the place. And we don't act like jerks on the boat,--only on this list . Regards, Dan >Hi! > >I subscribed a couple of days ago and just wanted to introduce myself. >I've been diving for 2 years in California, PADI OW Adv., with approx 120 >dives, and my dive buddy/significant other is PADI Rescue, diving for 5 >years with approx. 350 dives. Besides taking the rescue course (probably >next year) and a couple of PADI specialty courses, I wanted to start >learning about what is available in the tech diving area so when I feel I'm >ready to start taking more difficult classes I'll have a better idea which >direction to go in. I've found it difficult to get tech diving >information. We dive on the regular charter dive boats, which don't seem >to have many trips for the tech diving community, or any that I could find >(?) > >I've found this tech group *very enlightening* so far . . . even the flames >- :-) - or should I reply :-( . . . and I'm also learning a lot from >the tech diver web site. > >I hope I'm not being naive, but I'm interested in learning more about >decompression diving. We don't really have any desire to dive below 130 ft >at this time (we dive in wetsuits and at times get cold long before our air >supply or *no decompression time limit* dictates that we head back to the >boat, and it can get pretty cold 100 ft and below). But if we wanted to >extend our bottom time around 110 ft, I would like to know what I'm doing >and plan for it. My computer, a Phoenix, will handle decompression diving >at my level, but I would like the theory behind what my computer would be >telling me to do. > >Can anyone recommend where we can get training in the Los Angeles area? >And any good books? > >Also, we are planning to go to Key West next year and I understand that the >Florida area is where there's great training. Any recommendations? > >Thanks! > >- Christy Corson <christyc@pr*.co*> > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. > > Dan Volker SOUTH FLORIDA DIVE JOURNAL http://www.florida.net/scuba/dive
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