Just finished the Adv. Nitrox and Deco course today With GDI.
All I can say is I thought Intro was bad.
It's not so much bad as different.
First dive: max depth was 154' Had a hard time getting started.
I thumbed the dive at 15' Good thing Rick is patient. He asked me what the problem was and I told him I felt like a monkey trying to hump a football. I had practiced with the bottles 3 times in shallower water before this and had no problem but I guess the thought of actually going into deco and running the plan at depth really had me worked up. I took a minute to compose myself double checked all my gear and went to the 20 ft platform to work the kinks out of my trim. That wasn't hard I loosened my waist strap and lowered the tanks a bit. swam around for a minute and gave Rick the OK lets descend sign. Once again Rick was patient with me. We descended slowly down to 150' kept to the original dive plan that called for 25 min at 150. Boy didn't take long to get into deco. At 25 min we started our accent and followed our written dive plan using computers as back up. Did all the required stops and everything was fine till I deployed the lift bag. Then trying to control my depth and not wail around like a fool was tough at 20 ft. We used 40% for deep deco gas and the changed to O2 at 20'
Total dive time was 53 min.
1 hour SI::::
Now the second dive: I adjusted some of my gear and we used the same depth and gasses for this dive. Ran the dive plan and this time we clipped off the O2 at 20' and the nitrox at 80' This was a fun dive. No problem at depth and the nervousness was gone. ran a little deep on this dive Computer showed 152' but I never seen it. I think I lowered my arm. followed the written dive plan and pick up gasses on the way up. But when we hit the 10 ft mark the computer said we weren't clear yet but plan said we should be. We had 6 min at 20 and 8 at 10ft. but the computer says we had another 10 to go at the 10 ft mark. We stayed just in case and cleared the computers. Total dive time 64 min.
All and all a very interesting day and I learned allot.
A message to P2 the training we did at Denton with bottle control and exchange was nothing. I won't need a sleeping pill tonight. I will be there with you when your back gets better
Fred
All I can say is I thought Intro was bad.
It's not so much bad as different.
First dive: max depth was 154' Had a hard time getting started.
I thumbed the dive at 15' Good thing Rick is patient. He asked me what the problem was and I told him I felt like a monkey trying to hump a football. I had practiced with the bottles 3 times in shallower water before this and had no problem but I guess the thought of actually going into deco and running the plan at depth really had me worked up. I took a minute to compose myself double checked all my gear and went to the 20 ft platform to work the kinks out of my trim. That wasn't hard I loosened my waist strap and lowered the tanks a bit. swam around for a minute and gave Rick the OK lets descend sign. Once again Rick was patient with me. We descended slowly down to 150' kept to the original dive plan that called for 25 min at 150. Boy didn't take long to get into deco. At 25 min we started our accent and followed our written dive plan using computers as back up. Did all the required stops and everything was fine till I deployed the lift bag. Then trying to control my depth and not wail around like a fool was tough at 20 ft. We used 40% for deep deco gas and the changed to O2 at 20'
Total dive time was 53 min.
1 hour SI::::
Now the second dive: I adjusted some of my gear and we used the same depth and gasses for this dive. Ran the dive plan and this time we clipped off the O2 at 20' and the nitrox at 80' This was a fun dive. No problem at depth and the nervousness was gone. ran a little deep on this dive Computer showed 152' but I never seen it. I think I lowered my arm. followed the written dive plan and pick up gasses on the way up. But when we hit the 10 ft mark the computer said we weren't clear yet but plan said we should be. We had 6 min at 20 and 8 at 10ft. but the computer says we had another 10 to go at the 10 ft mark. We stayed just in case and cleared the computers. Total dive time 64 min.
All and all a very interesting day and I learned allot.
A message to P2 the training we did at Denton with bottle control and exchange was nothing. I won't need a sleeping pill tonight. I will be there with you when your back gets better
Fred
