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This is going to be my last post on this thread ever... I'm going to unsubscribe to it. To the Instructors in the group that wish to carry this one... Take it to the I2I forum. The original poster wanted to know wbout the oversight by various dive agencies... IMHO, the answers were several...

Not being nitpicky here, but to compare any AOW course to any Enriched Air course and attempt to determine an agency's substance to fluff ratio is not good practice. AOW is a lot of trying to determine what a person might be interested in pursuing in diving... Nitrox or Enriched Air is a lot of...

But in fact, they are courses... Here it is directly from PADI's website: In the PADI Open Water Diver course, your PADI Instructor takes you through the basics of learning how to scuba dive. You start in a pool or pool-like conditions and progress to the open water (ocean, lake, quarry, etc.)...

I'll try to help from the PADI side of things here. If a shop advertises a particular course as being offered as a PADI course, then that instructor or shop MUST offer it according to the PADI standards for that course You would be correct in that statement. The standards are the same no...

As many people have stated, it's the fit that makes it best for you. I have a Hammerhead SS BP/STA with the Oxycheq Mach V wing for diving singles.

Greetings from TN! I'm 6'6", and have a 52" chest... I dive a 7' hose on a Mares Abyss with single AL80's all the time.... I absolutely love it!! Have Fun and dive safe! Randy

No problem whatsoever Blades.... I recognize that PSD is not recreational diving, but rather a technical diving specialty. In the "foundational" training ( I like that... can I use that?), we give them the basic skills, and we take them to dive in the same lakes and creeks that they are most...

A fellow instructor and I have worked with a department down here in Middle TN that is getting into that line of work... What we are doing is getting them certified up thru Rescue Diver, and diving in a dry suit, and then they go contact another agency for the specialized training that they...

Greetings from Nashville, TN! I was born in Meridian, MS back in 1960... When I was growing up, a friend of mine had a backpacking and watersports shop called Base Camp.... He later opened a NAUI shop there, but it didn't make it long... Are there many divers down there? Good luck, and hope...

As Tanked Monkey said, if we tell Fred that several of us are going for night dives, then either he, his son, or Sammy will stay around until we finish. So I'll bring my 10'x12' EZ-up for some shade and such.... I do have some chairs I can bring, and a big cooler stocked with bottled water and...

Some excellent information here, and I'm going to come from a slightly different angle because I experienced a panic attack once before. One of my most favorite things to do (besides diving) is to read books... Always have loved to read. I was sitting in a book store here in Nashville one...

Yes, I can help with the cards.... I'll just need to know how many people are comingby the weekend before the event, so if we are looking at the 21st of April, let's get the replies by 4/14/2007 of how many are coming, and I'll get the cards on 4/14 from Fred... And yes, being an instructor...

Greetings Matt and everyone else! I can't go diving on April 7th, (25th Wedding Anniversary and all), but if you guys want to pick the 21st, I'll commit to being there.... I can probably bring out about 6 EAN32 AL80's.... Will just need to see the Nitrox cards before I give them out to...

As an instructor that teaches thru a shop 50% of the time and independently the other 50%, I looked at doing the insurance thru the shop or purchasing my own. In the end, I purchased my own. My reasoning was that if I had an incident when teaching independently, it really wasn't right to have...

Here at the Casa de ScubaRandy, it is 100% in the "get over it" category. I posed the question to my wife of 24 years, and she said it was not offensive at all.. She sat here and read some of the other posts, and agreed that there is more to this than the dog's name.... Good luck! Randy (And Jan)

The change was in the 1999 2nd Quarter Training Bulletin. Here's the text: Please modify Performance Requirement 7 of Open Water Dive Two to read: 7. Achieve neutral buoyancy by inflating the BCD (or dry suit if used) with the low pressure inflator. And Performance Requirement 7 of Open Water...

But the way that I read this is that if they did it for 30 seconds in CW4, then when in Open Water they should be able to do it at LEAST that long... And by the time they get to OW4, they should be able to hold it for quie a while. As to when the change came out allowing hovering as an...

Actually, according to my 2006 PADI Instructor Manual, trim is discussed in Knowledge Development Section 2, in the Streamline Yourself section. It states that you need to move horizontally thru the water, and that the instructor is to discuss trim, placement of weight for a comfortable...

Not True. Last time I looked, Tennessee is a landlocked state. Yet the shop I work for here is experiencing great shop traffic. Trip bookings to the Gulf and to Cabo and to Bonaire are up. Continuing Education is up. And the divers that we turn out are good at bouyancy control. The main...

Greetings from Middle TN! There are quite a few Volunteers in here! Randy