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I’m in between Fundamentals Part 1 and 2 right now and have to say, I see how much work you’d have to do to absorb all the knowledge and achieve proficiency in skills in four straight days. Unless you come in very experienced. It’s my first exposure to doubles so stability and buoyancy there is...

Most people can expand the range of their reach quite a bit with practice and technique. But if you can’t after that, well you have to be able to reach your valves for any tech or overhead diving. So inverted backmount or sidemount or some other approach would need to be found if you want to...

If you go the the pool and practice all the stuff in part I it will help. If you don’t do that becuase you have this whole work/family thing I think it would hurt.

There are some generally agreed rules, but I’m pretty sure things like no gopros until after 100 jumps are not followed by all jump zones and are not really regulations in the sense of being a FAA reg.

Yes, I’ve seen people doing that at EE. Mostly guys with RB80s in their pickup beds…

Try to get them to pay for it when the doctors ordered it. https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/ambulance-flight-hospital-emergency-19376329.php

There are chambers that are fully capable of running the full Navy tables that don’t treat divers. I’ve seen explanations from operators before and it comes down to money and people. Not many places can even break even treating DCS so if the chamber and staff isn’t funded as part of an...

Though my coworker got admitted after blood clots from the knee replacement sent him to the ER.

When I did a doubles primer it was two days. First day was basically drills in his backyard pool. Second day we went to Long Beach and got on a boat and went diving with doubles.

What I found fascinating is how little the space under the grate resembled that given in the testimony of the police divers who retrieved the bodies of the divers way back when. It’s possible that that was closed off in a later collapse, but maybe it was all just narcosis?

The DAN statement was an admission that things went wrong and how they intend to fix it so it won’t happen again.

It seems only platinum gets free evac. Any cardholder can get them to organize an evac, but you will be billed. Nobody gets free treatment beyond what the evac provider does in transit, so that is where DAN or a similar policy would be highly useful.

That seems like a pretty reasonable reponse.

This is very notmal. I’ve heard 2-3 paramedics and ED nurses describe how they convinced themselves they they were fine for hours despite abvious major cardiac symptoms. One ended up in the cath lab getting ablation due to their racing heart, another in the cath lab getting stents. If you...

Many amex cards have medical evac benefit.

Amex medical evacuation benefit would cover the flight, but must be arranged through them. The care afterward would not be covered.

I’ve never read a detailed account of a scuba related Ti fire, but I have seen the detailed analysis of a 100% Oxygen Al tank that internally ignited, apparently after it was dropped according to the surviving witness. Not a good scene.

You need two regs for either doubles or side mount without deco bottles. So how about keep the third as a spare for them and buy cheaper but similar regs for deco bottles?

The GoPro thing is apparently an industry-wide policy.

It is an option supported by the standards. An IE can exempt you from any prerequisite if, it their opinion, you can demonstrate that you have mastered the expected skills and procedures. I suspect it isn’t an easy option. In the class I took with Mark we all got provisionals, he’s not an easy...