CAPTAIN SINBAD
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Question: Does SDI not cover tables in the Open Water course or is it left up to the instructor whether they would like to train students on them or not.
Thanks.
CS
Thanks.
CS
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That's pretty old training material! I've only kept my files fact to 2007, and there are no tables in OW then, and no Easy Nitrox course.Actually I found my manual "Training manual for scuba diving" which I got as part of my OW course. There are no questions on tables in the tests. But there is an Appendix. It has the navy dive Tables on pp 82 -87 with worked out examples and discussion. Copoyright 1991.
For Nitrox I got the "Easy Nitrox Diving". On pages 62 it discusses the SDI tables. You find the EAD for mixes all the way from 21% to 40% for depths from 9 to 140 ft. Also has MOD at 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 for the same range of O2 %. This is the table I got a copy of. Other side is like the usual PADI or NAVY table.
So they may have changed the training material but when I took the courses there were tables in the training manuals.