DiveCon Presentation

[maggo]

Hello

I'm doing my Divecon at the moment and now i came to the point where i have to do my 20 minute presentation. My Instructor gave me "Dive Table 2" as the topic and I'm struggling a bit with that. I don't relly know what i have to include in that? I think it should be everything around off-gasing. If you have any ideas or experience in that i would be glad to hear about it. As well my Instructor really likes it, when you include stories into your presentation. So if you know any stories about off-gasing or problems with it I would be glad to hear about them as well.

Thank You

 

[captndale]

Hello

I'm doing my Divecon at the moment and now i came to the point where i have to do my 20 minute presentation. My Instructor gave me "Dive Table 2" as the topic and I'm struggling a bit with that. I don't relly know what i have to include in that? I think it should be everything around off-gasing. If you have any ideas or experience in that i would be glad to hear about it. As well my Instructor really likes it, when you include stories into your presentation. So if you know any stories about off-gasing or problems with it I would be glad to hear about them as well.

Thank You

What is "doing a Divecon?"
What is the content of "dive table 2?"
What course are you trying to teach?
If you fill us in maybe we can help.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

That's a long presentation for table 2. I can see doing 20 minutes on all the dive tables.

A few hints.

First: tell them what your topic is and give it some value. Make sure you tell them about how important dive planning is.

Second: Do your presentation and include stories of poor dive plans, why they went bad (no contingency times or depth) and include references to specialty courses or gear:

Third: Tell them what you told them and remind them of the value. Ask a couple of review questions.

 

[Web Monkey]

DiveCon is an SSI combination Divemaster and Assistant Instructor.

It's good for leading dives, assisting the instructor in class and teaching "Scuba Skills Update" and Snorkling.

"Dive Table 2" is Residual Nitrogen Table from the SSI dive table card.

It's pretty dry stuff, and I'd have to think long and hard to come up with an interesting story about it, which is unfortuate, since I'm taking the same class (different LDS).

Terry

What is "doing a Divecon?"
What is the content of "dive table 2?"
What course are you trying to teach?
If you fill us in maybe we can help.

 

[dherbman]

Hello

I'm doing my Divecon at the moment and now i came to the point where i have to do my 20 minute presentation. My Instructor gave me "Dive Table 2" as the topic and I'm struggling a bit with that. I don't relly know what i have to include in that? I think it should be everything around off-gasing. If you have any ideas or experience in that i would be glad to hear about it. As well my Instructor really likes it, when you include stories into your presentation. So if you know any stories about off-gasing or problems with it I would be glad to hear about them as well.

Thank You

20 minutes on just table 2? How much can you say about surface intervals? That's going to be a snooze. Find 18 minutes of stories and 2 minutes should pretty well cover table two.

Wish I could be more helpful. I think Al gave me 5-1/2 minutes to cover all three tables. That was a bit tight, but maybe you could ask for all three.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

You had 8 dave and did a great job.

 

[maggo]

Well, i think he doesn't want me to explain how to work with table 2 for 20 minutes. Right now i'm planning to tell him about henry's law and injuries which occur when not being conservative with off-gasing. I just can't think about an interesting story (or may be more than one considering the given time). But thank you for your help

 

[huskychemist]

Seems like you can't use Table 2 without referring back to Table 1 also...

In my OW, we used Table 2 to "plan backwards." Give a scenario...

You want to do two dives at so and so location...you know the first dive is to 80 fsw...you can stay there for x minutes...how long of a surface interval do you need to do a second dive to 60 fsw for x minutes...how much residual nitrogen do you have, etc?

Part of presenting to a class is getting the class to do some examples also. Think about mistakes that "real" students might make, and be ready to answer those questions from the instructors...

Have fun!