LOL......
Kelly, you'll have to see my "cave police" UV-26 when you're down next. Blue nose and tail cone, 3 sets of blue and red strobes.....
Safe diving,
Rich
Is it equipped with a taser?
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LOL......
Kelly, you'll have to see my "cave police" UV-26 when you're down next. Blue nose and tail cone, 3 sets of blue and red strobes.....
Safe diving,
Rich
There are too many people teaching for too many agencies with too many different standards. The numbers of cave instructors, cave cert. agencies and different leveled cave certs all need to be reduced.
The most important skill as a cave diver is to think on your feet, I just talked to InkDiver yesterday on his way back from his intro class (he beat me to taking the class) and he said this was stressed over and over and over, more than anything else. He mentioned his instructor asked what would YOU do in _______ situation.
I think it stems from not wanting cavern and intro cave divers making deep penetrations into the cave because they had all that gas. I believe that is what was discussed when this came up during training.
Personally, I didn't spend much time at intro, and there is no apprentice level in PSAI, so I went from cavern to full cave, and now I don't have to worry about it. But I started out using twin 108s in cavern and then I used twin 130s for intro to full cave. I did my twin set training as part of my cavern dives. There was some pool work on top of the actual dives, and it took a little longer because there were more dives, but it was worth it to have the doubles training with my cave training.
If a diver has the training, and is capable, I don't have a problem with someone diving in doubles. But I don't make the rules.