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Its a huge issueSo you think they are aware of the issue and neglect it? I wonder if anyone has stats on how common this is in regards to diving accidents for technical or even deep recreational dives. I am not sure of this, but could it be that it may not be that much of an issue for the agency's to care about it?
But they are in the business to sell training and certifications - not continually redesign their programs and retrain their instructors to follow the best available science. You could always decide PADI's Tec40/50 program isn't for you and go to an instructor/agency that has long understood the risks of CO2 and the value of helium - even before there was peer reviewed and published recommendations with relatively precise density thresholds to consider when planning dives.