A big thanks to you SB Jerks.

[Scott M]

Up until last night (I'll explain in a minute) every time I read one of the many, many posts from the experienced members of this board especially you MikeF was that you're so demanding on your students. How wrong I was.

Now the explaination:

I picked up the book Deep Descent this weekend and could not put it down until I finished it. I now realise just how untrained I really am. Don't get me wrong my instructor was great and covered all the basics as required and more but OW cert is just really basic for what is needed to dive safely.

I have just sent an e-mail to another LDS I use to schedule some private skill classes (my instructor is only available during the summer ) so I can be a little better prepared for my upcoming Feb. PDC trip.

So let me formally thank you SB Jerks for the hard time you give us noobs it is greatly appreciated and I for one will be rereading a lot of posts with a new found respect.

Scott

 

[detroit diver]

It's called "Tough Love"

 

[diverbrian]

Many of the deaths in that book were highly trained divers who could most likely do OOG drills in their sleep.

Many of them were done in by arrogance and complacency as much as by lack of training.

That skills training is useful only if you use it and respect it on every dive that you do. If you disregard it, you run the risk of having problems above your ability to handle them.

 

[Uncle Pug]

I saw the thread title in new posts and pulled it up expecting to move an off color rant to the moderator dumpster!

Good Job Scott... I don't get taken often... but you got me.

 

[OneBrightGator]

Sounds like you're on the right track and to echo essentially what Brian said, all the training in the world won't help if you don't use what's between your ears.

Good luck with your con-ed and safe diving.

Ben

 

[pipedope]

you may collect is just another license to learn.

I learn something every dive. The day I don't is the day I quit diving.

 

[Scott M]

detroit diver once bubbled...
It's called "Tough Love"

Thats the kind of love I can "live" with. Pun intended!

diverbrian once bubbled...
Many of the deaths in that book were highly trained divers who could most likely do OOG drills in their sleep.

Many of them were done in by arrogance and complacency as much as by lack of training.

That skills training is useful only if you use it and respect it on every dive that you do. If you disregard it, you run the risk of having problems above your ability to handle them.

Agreed, it made me realise just how vulnerable a diver is to the outside factors, weather, greed, arrogance, equipment failure etc. there should be no reason for lack of training.

Uncle Pug once bubbled...
I saw the thread title in new posts and pulled it up expecting to move an off color rant to the moderator dumpster!

Good Job Scott... I don't get taken often... but you got me.

Although not intended, "getting you" before I got "Pugged" is an unexpected surprise

OneBrightGator once bubbled...
Sounds like you're on the right track and to echo essentially what Brian said, all the training in the world won't help if you don't use what's between your ears.

Good luck with your con-ed and safe diving.

Ben

Agreed, but since I can not do much with what is already between my ears I'll have to work on the training

 

[100days-a-year]

Just remember we were all new once and many have made mistakes at shallow depths and lived.When diving deep or in difficult environments lack of training is the #1 killer.Other factors are often exacerbated by it as well.The "tough guys" you mention are often maligned by some and thier advice nit-picked to death.Thanx for "getting it".

 

[Scott M]

pipedope once bubbled...
you may collect is just another license to learn.

I learn something every dive. The day I don't is the day I quit diving.

I make a habit of trying to study/learn everything I can about anything I delve into, the outcome is usually the same - the more I learn or perceive to know the more I realise I am only scratching the surface and how little I really know. Thats what makes boards like SB so great, lots of info and varying opinions, everybody contributing something - good, bad or indifferent.

100days-a-year once bubbled...
Just remember we were all new once and many have made mistakes at shallow depths and lived.When diving deep or in difficult environments lack of training is the #1 killer.Other factors are often exacerbated by it as well.The "tough guys" you mention are often maligned by some and thier advice nit-picked to death.Thanx for "getting it".

Your welcome and thank you.

P.S. The thread didn't start out with "tough guys" in it, I had another word
but the regulators felt it better that it be tamed a bit, it is a family forum so I have to agree with that decision.

Scott

 

[detroit diver]

Scott M once bubbled...

.................................
P.S. The thread didn't start out with "tough guys" in it, I had another word
but the regulators felt it better that it be tamed a bit, it is a family forum so I have to agree with that decision.

Scott

I was surprised it lasted as long as it did!!