A post in a recent thread in this forum suggested that rec diving has changed in the last 15 years. This made me wonder, and I replied:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...-back-water-after-15-years-2.html#post5692307
I would like to pursue this in this thread. What I would like to know is whether and to what degree your approach to rec diving has changed over the last 20, say, years. Please describe. I'll reproduce my earlier post now:
"This is curious. My initial scuba training took place in 1986. I'm trying to think of the ways my rec diving has changed over these past ~25 years. I can't think of anything, really. When I do recreational scuba diving these days, I pretty much dive the same way I dove back then. For these types of dives, I've always dove the same way, I think. I prefer/use analog gauges, for example when I rec dive. And I conservatively follow standard air tables (rather than multi-level tables). I'm Nitrox certified, but I seldom use Nitrox for rec dives, and when I do, I follow standard air tables. I sometimes take a dive computer, but I use it only to record my rec dive for later playback. I've always kept my ascent rates very slow, but when I sometimes also take my digital bottom timer, I pay special attention to the 30 fpm ascent rate limit. I'm 55 now and have young children, so I limit my diving to at most two dives per day, and take a day off after two consecutive days of diving. And I carried a reel and DSMB during my last rec ocean and Great Lakes dives, which I didn't carry--never heard of in fact--in 1986. These last two things might be the only substantive difference between what I did then versus what I do now, I think. Maybe I'm missing something.
"I'm wondering now if others who have been diving a while are similar? How we answer this is important, especially if we sometimes dive with more-recently trained divers. Maybe this should be pursued in a new thread.
"P.S. Just thought of one more change: I now carry EMT shears, also."
Thanks,
Ronald
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...-back-water-after-15-years-2.html#post5692307
I would like to pursue this in this thread. What I would like to know is whether and to what degree your approach to rec diving has changed over the last 20, say, years. Please describe. I'll reproduce my earlier post now:
"This is curious. My initial scuba training took place in 1986. I'm trying to think of the ways my rec diving has changed over these past ~25 years. I can't think of anything, really. When I do recreational scuba diving these days, I pretty much dive the same way I dove back then. For these types of dives, I've always dove the same way, I think. I prefer/use analog gauges, for example when I rec dive. And I conservatively follow standard air tables (rather than multi-level tables). I'm Nitrox certified, but I seldom use Nitrox for rec dives, and when I do, I follow standard air tables. I sometimes take a dive computer, but I use it only to record my rec dive for later playback. I've always kept my ascent rates very slow, but when I sometimes also take my digital bottom timer, I pay special attention to the 30 fpm ascent rate limit. I'm 55 now and have young children, so I limit my diving to at most two dives per day, and take a day off after two consecutive days of diving. And I carried a reel and DSMB during my last rec ocean and Great Lakes dives, which I didn't carry--never heard of in fact--in 1986. These last two things might be the only substantive difference between what I did then versus what I do now, I think. Maybe I'm missing something.
"I'm wondering now if others who have been diving a while are similar? How we answer this is important, especially if we sometimes dive with more-recently trained divers. Maybe this should be pursued in a new thread.
"P.S. Just thought of one more change: I now carry EMT shears, also."
Thanks,
Ronald
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