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Deep cert or aim for tech
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CaptainCalamari
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I think the key with Padi deep training is to get narked in a controlled supervised environment and understand it's effects on how you think.
I'm not sure how controlled or supervised it is at 40m with an instructor who may be just as narked as you....
On the OP, I would say to do eg a Tec40 course before doing a Deep speciality. The NDL times at those depths as well as the gas available are too short to do anything more meaningful than a bounce anyway. For the cost I'd rather learn to be able to spend a bit of time down there, especially if you are planning tech later anyway.
On the OP, I would say to do eg a Tec40 course before doing a Deep speciality. The NDL times at those depths as well as the gas available are too short to do anything more meaningful than a bounce anyway. For the cost I'd rather learn to be able to spend a bit of time down there, especially if you are planning tech later anyway.
CaptainCalamari
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It's like being drunk for the first time, you often don't realise how much until it's too late.
If you have been drunk before and people told you how out of control you are, then you past closer attention to your actions and feelings next time around.
I'd hate to get to 35m for the first time and think that I can breath like a fish, with my buddy who thinks he is a seal.
If you have been drunk before and people told you how out of control you are, then you past closer attention to your actions and feelings next time around.
I'd hate to get to 35m for the first time and think that I can breath like a fish, with my buddy who thinks he is a seal.
Rich Walker at wreck and cave (www.wreckandcave.co.uk). Also a GUE instructor
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soggybadger
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Thanks for the info fellas.
As a TDI instructor, I would not start tec training with a student who did not have the full deep specialty
I would not have a problem taking an AN/DP student that didn't have a deep cert if they had the experience. Although once we started the class there would be no guarantee they'd get to finish it if they were a complete train wreck to start with.
As for UK instructors - only one name comes to my mind since I really don't know many of them- Mark Powell
Dive-Tech: TDI Nitrox, Helitrox, Trimix and technical diver training courses with instructor Mark Powell
He actually did write one of the best books on decompression for the layman and above.
As for UK instructors - only one name comes to my mind since I really don't know many of them- Mark Powell
Dive-Tech: TDI Nitrox, Helitrox, Trimix and technical diver training courses with instructor Mark Powell
He actually did write one of the best books on decompression for the layman and above.
You may not realize it, but there are other requirements. You don't just get a DM card when you produce a log book with 60 dives.
As has been the consensus of, oh, maybe 200 threads over the years, dive count is close to meaningless in indicating diver readiness for a certification level. What counts is performance in comparison to course standards. In determining whether someone meets the standards for course completion, including the DM course, the dive count is a mere technicality that people barely pay attention to.
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