More Emergency Training?

[MrChen]

I've got my Paid OW, Nitrox, and AOW. The OW course was pretty good and required successful completion of many skills. Nitrox was basically just studying a book. AOW was a breeze as well.

My complaint about AOW is that I don't feel like it prepared me for emergencies at a deeper depth. Sure, I did a deep dive, but I wouldn't want to do a Cesa from 90ft.

What I'd like is more emergency practice. Maybe some harassment. I'm not looking for something which requires physical fitness type training. I want something that better prepares me and my dive partner to work under stress. Does rescue diver give some of this? Thoughts, advice? AOW felt like a resort type class, we're going diving and you'll get certified. Too easy.

 

[Lorenzoid]

Yes, Rescue Diver goes into this.

 

[TMHeimer]

Yes, Rescue. It's also good to imagine scenarios of multiple things going wrong and (in what order) you'd address them calmly. Fortunately equipment nowadays is very reliable if properly maintained. So a diver that follows the rules and maybe dives once weekly (like me) may go a LONG while before an actual emergency. So the only way to prepare is to practise stuff and imagine things. With regard to the EFR course, I have yet to even SEE someone giving CPR anywhere but on TV and I'm almost 60. My wife did it at age 16, but she was a lifeguard back then.

 

[MrChen]

Good to hear. I just want something more challenging.

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[tomfcrist]

If you were closer to me I would gladly custom tailor your rescue course.....you may however regret asking for a harassment dive

 

[MrChen]

If you were closer to me I would gladly custom tailor your rescue course.....you may however regret asking for a harassment dive

I'd welcome the challenge as long as the goal is to become a better diver and not just torture me.

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[tomfcrist]

That's always the goal. I usually base my training evolutions off worst case scenarios. Can you say task overload?

 

[beanojones]

I've got my Paid OW, Nitrox, and AOW. The OW course was pretty good and required successful completion of many skills. Nitrox was basically just studying a book. AOW was a breeze as well.

My complaint about AOW is that I don't feel like it prepared me for emergencies at a deeper depth. Sure, I did a deep dive, but I wouldn't want to do a Cesa from 90ft.

What I'd like is more emergency practice. Maybe some harassment. I'm not looking for something which requires physical fitness type training. I want something that better prepares me and my dive partner to work under stress. Does rescue diver give some of this? Thoughts, advice? AOW felt like a resort type class, we're going diving and you'll get certified. Too easy.

You did not do any deep training, you did a deep experience dive. That's what the 5 dives in the AOW course are.

Do the actual Deep Diver training course, if you want to get trained to do deep diving.

Why not actually try a CESA from 90 ft? Not that there would ever be a reason for you to do one, but I practiced them many times from 100 feet because there is reason for me to have to be able to do them.

 

[tomfcrist]

Ok beano, now I'm curious......why the heck would you practice cesa from 100'?

 

[MrChen]

You did not do any deep training, you did a deep experience dive.

Kind of what I said and that's exactly what it felt like. I'll look more into deep water. I'm not sure why an experience lets you dive deeper. Outside of deploying my smb, I don't feel any more prepared for an emergency at depth.

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