I'm with Bob on this.
I hate the deep dive until someone is really ready for it. Someone has to be confident in the shallows before they'll be confident in the deep. I've also seen the deep dive get severely off the tracks a couple of times (not my students but I HAVE been the rescuer). If there is one reason why my hair started turning grey before I was 50, it was the deep dive (and having 2 teenagers )!
I don't mind diving deep. My usual dive with my regular buddies is deep and long (and normally well over the NDLs) but diving to depth with someone with 1000 dives at that depth and maybe 2000-3000 life time dives is a lot different "stress" scenario than making a dive to the same depth with someone has 14 dives.
Personally, if I could re-write standards, I wouldn't be telling divers to go to 30+ metres with less than 50 dives....
R..
I hate the deep dive until someone is really ready for it. Someone has to be confident in the shallows before they'll be confident in the deep. I've also seen the deep dive get severely off the tracks a couple of times (not my students but I HAVE been the rescuer). If there is one reason why my hair started turning grey before I was 50, it was the deep dive (and having 2 teenagers )!
I don't mind diving deep. My usual dive with my regular buddies is deep and long (and normally well over the NDLs) but diving to depth with someone with 1000 dives at that depth and maybe 2000-3000 life time dives is a lot different "stress" scenario than making a dive to the same depth with someone has 14 dives.
Personally, if I could re-write standards, I wouldn't be telling divers to go to 30+ metres with less than 50 dives....
R..