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All the places I've ever seen have (at the very least) seriously discouraged Spare Air. Many have specifically excluded Spare Air from their list of accepted redundant scuba. Regardless, when you're doing the course, you should clearly see how very little air time Spare Air will provide and whether it is appropriate for the conditions in which you will dive. (Spare Air may be perfectly sufficient for that course in the 25-foot crystal clear tropical lagoon, but would you want to have it as your only redundant scuba in an 85-foot murky quarry? You should be able to answer that logically, if not now, by the time you get wet in the class. :biggrinInteresting. The course description includes this:
"One of the following must be used as a redundant air source: pony bottle, twin cylinders with isolation valve, independent doubles, Spare Air(TM)."
Seems fairly pointless to pay the money and get the card only to find that its useless.
My main issue with the certification is that many shops/boats are not going to recognise it. (I just had a PM conversation with a member who mentioned that Divetech on Cayman will not allow solo diving even with the certification)
Seems fairly pointless to pay the money and get the card only to find that its useless.
Cave diving training is the best dive training you can ever do and will make you a better diver!