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As far as the comfort zone questions goes, yes, it is definately ONLY up to the individual to determine their comfort level. As far as stretching that level, as others have already said, training can help speed up the process somewhat, and while I am an advocate of training, I feel that there is more to it. If you did 100 dives to 100 feet, you would have no real question as to whether or not a dive to 120 was within your comfort zone. and if you did 100 dives to 120, 130 wouldn't feel outside your zone, and on and on. I'm not saying it takes ANY specific number of dives, but what I am saying is that it takes a STAGED experience, with adequate time to comprehend the associated risks, concerns, and other factors associated with a dive before you should progress. Once you have a few minor problems, or have things that are out of the ordinary happen that broaden your horizons a bit, you will gain confidence. The last thing you want to do is attempt a dive that you have a significant amount of fear of. It's fear that keeps many people safe sometimes, although first you must learn what is reasonable to fear. It all comes down to DIVING....if you don't do it often, how can you expect to progress. Tim Olson deepdive@sa*.cv*.or* Original message from Scott: ******************************************************* Here's a philisophical question, I expect there is no right answer, but I'd appreciate any considered thoughts. How do you know when your ready for advanced training? In Mr. Mount's books, he says 'Look within yourself and determine "is this in my comfort zone"?' This makes perfect sense to me outside of a training situation, where it's imposible to be diving within your comfort zone because you're doing something you have little or no practical experience with. So, where is the comfort zone in this case? Perhaps this can only be answered by the individual, if so please excuse the waste of bandwidth, it's probably just the result of filling in medical forms and next of kin questionairs all day. Thanks, Scott. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'.
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