..... Many of which overlook the most important part - the meaning of MSD is personal and individual, and that is what counts the most. ....
Colliam7
Best comment ever on MSD. You should plunk this into every MSD thread that comes up!
Bill
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..... Many of which overlook the most important part - the meaning of MSD is personal and individual, and that is what counts the most. ....
Easily done with MSD as a rating, it isn't a certification level. Who knows what other courses he has done. Why the manic interest with a dive he described?
There's no lack of opinions as to how useless the MSD certification is.
If we decide to take a cave training (not yet) I'll ask JJ to work with us. If one can afford learning they should consider the best ones to teach them.
@Mustard Dave: Most agencies recognize multiple mixes and deco dives as technical dives: Technical diving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hence no quotes in my original post.
My back gas (28%) was in GUE-compliant doubles rig, 2x100cf steel tanks. Accelerated deco mix (40%) was in 80cf stage. Using 40% as additional safety at 125'/38m might kill you as its MOD is only 82'/25m. The dive was planned as an overhead dive, without actual overhead. I used v-planner to plan that multi-level dive. Deco obligation was 13 minutes at 30', after some time shallower than 125. It was, after all a shore dive and many people here do it on 32% but I'm too young to die. You can see a picture of me fully geared up near Hole in the Wall on my profile. Again our setups are fully GUE-compliant and go way beyond required for MSD level but that would be a subject of a separate thread.