UCFKnightDiver
Contributor
What I read ... consistently ... in AJ's comments is his belief that deep air should not be taught ... and that if it were not taught, then when the old divers all died off people wouldn't do it.
As someone who has always tried teaching to higher than normal standards, I can tell you that there are ... and probably will always be ... a certain percentage of people who will go off and do things whether they are taught or not.
So the question becomes one of whether it's better to teach them something that may not be optimal, or "just say no" and live with the fact that some will go off and do it anyway ... only without any training.
Which do you believe would be less safe?
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Maybe I missed this too but... this begs the question again of: What training? To be honest I still haven't seen a post that entails what narcosis management training is, what exactly can you do to train for this? It's one thing to teach(take) someone deep for their training but what exactly are you teaching, what methods to mitigate/deal with narcosis?