Happiness is helping your child with Nitrox class

[BertStevens]

My youngest was certified last summer. Now she is working on her Nitrox cert. I was helping her with her online class today and she surprised herself how much she already knew from her science class.

Anyway, it is fun watching her learn and grasp concepts. Makes this old dad proud!

 

[Bubblesong]

Awesome! I hope she keeps going! My daughter (18) just got an internship at our LDS, and I am hoping she keeps going with her classes, since they are offering her some free classes and rentals in exchange for helping in shop.

 

[drrich2]

I'm glad to hear she's getting an example that some of what she learns in science classes has real work applications. I imagine that to many kids, instruction about partial gas pressures, and density relative to pressure, must seem about as useful as asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Even if you knew, what would you do with that knowledge?

Scuba diving brings gas laws into practical perspective. The main example I ran across reading related to gas planning for technical diving; a tank that's hypoxic at the surface (e.g.: 10% oxygen) might be fine to breath at depth (say, at 2 atm, with double the density, so oxygen partial pressure is adequate), yet better switch back on ascent...if I understood correctly. Never had any technical dive training.

Richard.

 

[KevinNM]

If you are diving a hypoxic gas you are also using deco gasses. So the GUE SOP is you start on your deep deco gas, then switch to your hypoxic back gas at depth and you ascend using your deco gasses. Screwing up gas switches when you are diving at this level can be really, really bad.

 

[drrich2]

Cool. Just to clarify, it wasn't any dive planning for me; it goes go to show practical application of understanding partial pressures.

Richard.

 

[SoCalSwami]

Congrats BertStephens on having a child enjoy diving! 2 of my 3 like the sport and the oldest is taking AOW/Nitrox this summer.

 

[Adam Grose]

Very cool!!!! Definitely encourage her interest not only in diving, but in the sciences. You never know, it could lead her to a great career someday.

Adam