Furthuring my diving education

[Thalassamania]

yeah, but drop down too far too deep for the mix in your tank and you convulse and drown, which severely cramps your entire day.


Glad you enjoyed the class and keep on furthering your education. There is much to know...

If you do that with any gas, including air, you have the same problem, NITROX is nothing special, its just shallow air. I don't understand why that concept requires a separate class.

 

[Doc Intrepid]

You probably include all such concepts in your basic class, T. But many agencies don't. Students of those other courses also learn differently, some at different rates, some more slowly if they're simultaneously concerned about say "clearing their masks", some fail to "drink from a firehose" with an appropriate retention rate, etc. etc.

I've learned a great deal from each of the courses I've taken...including those taken after my OW course. And my OW course was a NAUI course that lasted 12 weeks long at approximately 6 hours per week, totaling some 72 hours, in 1975.

 

[MikeFerrara]

I don't understand why that concept requires a separate class.

Yes you do.

 

[Thalassamania]

You probably include all such concepts in your basic class, T. But many agencies don't. Students of those other courses also learn differently, some at different rates, some more slowly if they're simultaneously concerned about say "clearing their masks", some fail to "drink from a firehose" with an appropriate retention rate, etc. etc.

I've learned a great deal from each of the courses I've taken...including those taken after my OW course. And my OW course was a NAUI course that lasted 12 weeks long at approximately 6 hours per week, totaling some 72 hours, in 1975.

Sure, and we do saturation and decom theory and usualy have one or more talks from a dive computer designer. But that's not what I'm talking about.

What is taught in a "conventional" course? I completely agree that repetition helps folks remember. And that's good. But don't you think that that the basic concepts, e.g. oxtox, narcosis, NDL, MOD, EAD, etc. could easily be taught within the confines of the entry class (should be there I mean) and reinforced in each succeeding program?

I know that Mike is champing at the bit for me to say say that it's all a result of the pursuit of the allmightly buck, so there it is Mike.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Nice to hear you are going to do more. Hopefully, this wouldn't turn into a 40 page bash Padi thread...

Gotta admire an optimist ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Thalassamania]

Nice to hear you are going to do more. Hopefully, this wouldn't turn into a 40 page bash Padi thread...

Frankly I think that we should all try to agree to bifurcate a thread when we need to stray from the the OP's post into the deeper waters that surround the issue. Waters that the OP likely never suspected where there. That way we can be honest and true to our beliefs and not scare the farmer johns off the OP. If you need to comment, please start another thread, and put a link in this one. Thanks.

 

[fisherdvm]

I think we should name this post "Fundies in OW, the great battle between Jedi DiveMasters, Padi-one OW learners, and the Siths Lords"....

 

[Thalassamania]

I think we should name this post "Fundies in OW, the great battle between Jedi DiveMasters, Padi-one OW learners, and the Siths Lords"....

OK, gone too far, time to switch avatars ... where's that phonebooth anyway? (Kids today do not know what a phone booth is, at least an opaque one you could change in).

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Yep, the amazing thing is that you breath nitrox the same way you breath air.. inhale and then exhale; repeat as needed.

In my nitrox class I was taught to exhale and then inhale. Strange.

 

[SparticleBrane]

I didn't have a "nitrox class" per say. The material was covered in my basic open water class, as I believe it should be.