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PADI tables. AKA: Recreational Dive Planner.

The PADI RDP clearly states that a safety stop is required any time the diver comes within three pressure groups of the NDL and for any dive to 100 feet or greater. So yes, for most diving a safety stop isn’t technically required. But for the above situations skipping one theoretically puts the...

You're assuming she knew, at the moment, that he was drowsy and that it was due to contaminated air. From my reading, all she knew was that he wasn't feeling well and something was wrong. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say. Yeah, she should have skipped the safety stop, but - correct me if I'm...

Another option is the Aqualung Rogue: Rogue: dive BCD | Aqualung® Weighs 5 lbs., very comfortable and very easy to pack. It essentially packs flat if you remove the straps and waist belt and then click back together when you get to your destination.

Are you trying to download your Tern to your iPhone or to a Mac computer? The reason I ask is because I have difficulties getting my laptop version of MacDive to link with my Teric, but no problems at all linking the iOS version to it. My workaround is to download my dives to MacDive for iOS...

You need a backpack with compression straps or bungees what run across the front. Put your regular gear inside the backpack and zip it up. Then put your fins on the outside and run the straps across them and fasten and tighten. Voila.

Learning about hydrostatic testing requirements is part of open water training. At least for PADI. Did you skip that section?

The email in both cases is the same, so I assume he owns both now. Maybe?

I don't really understand what all the fuss is about when it comes to AOW. If you are a relatively new diver, the course will get you some more dives, more experience, and more useful training. That extra training is particularly good if your additional adventure dives are in solid...

From a legal perspective, I can't say whether or not a requirement to have an AOW cert would hold up in court if an accident were to happen. But I definitely know boats that require AOW for dives deeper than 60'. Unless you mean that there is no legal or insurance requirement, but instead it's...

I think you missed the several posts above that explicitly stated you didn't have to take your AOW through PADI. But if you had gone with SSI, NAUI, etc. you wouldn't get to complain about PADI. So at least you got that out of it.

I feel like we've hit maximum Scubaboard with this thread. It only took a minute for someone to suggest a BPW. Then, for the very next post we get a recommendation for Halcyon. The following response is for a DGX system. All we need now is for someone to chime in telling OP to avoid split...

Interesting. If true, then it would be a reason to unclip all buckles of the victim's BCD right away rather than in small steps in between rescue breaths.

The big difference between PADI and the SSI video is that the video does not show any attempt to unclip the BCD while giving rescue breaths and towing. It's simply two rescue breaths and haul ass to the shoreline. To me, the speed of getting the victim to a hard surface is almost always going...

G Good question, and I don't know the answer. Hopefully someone from SSI or NAUI or one of the other agencies will chime in. I did find a series of short YouTube videos from SSI demonstrating surfacing an submerged unconscious diver and towing that person, and another on how to deal with an...

First of all, just because we disagree does not mean you need to be disagreeable. I understand perfectly well that it is just an exercise. I question the effectiveness of it as it is presented, that's all. And clearly I'm not alone, judging by the responses in this thread...

I don't know if the course would need to be a week long, or if people would take it if it was. Given, however, that the people who take Rescue Diver classes tend to be on the more serious side in terms of their diving and training, I think people would sign up even if the course was longer and...

I think there is a disconnect between what the PADI course materials state (the manual and the eLearning version) and what Rescue Exercise 7 actually has students practice. The course materials do reflect the flowchart developed by Dr. Mitchell et al. In Section Four, subsection "Responding to...

Pedantry for the win!

But this begs the question of why the training exercises and evaluations differ from what is being said. I might be completely off-base, but it seems to me that Rescue Scenario 7 (in the PADI course) is just about the least effective thing to do in a real life emergency. So why tell students...