Minimum requirements for tech courses

[Bennno]

Seya, you made a bunch of statements that I addressed, I don't know how that is 'picking on you'. Have you read what I wrote? I already told you that there is no magic number but that 25 is too low for deco (people with 50-100 dive are usually much better than people with 20 dives. When is someone at 6 feet of hight considered fat, Saye? Is it at 180 lbs, 200 lbs 220. Give my an exact number!)

I sound like a big shot because I tell you about my experience with divers? Ok, well, you believe what you wanna believe. As somebody already said, it also depends on the kind of dives and on talent.
But again, deco and deep diving can be very dangerous and is not for beginners, what's the rush?

 

[Seya]

I never advocated anyone to rush into deco I said I think intro to tech is very important to learn sooner than later. Then once they are prepared to enter tech they can. All diving is dangerous.

Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk

 

[Nasser]

Why should it be just one or the other? If it were up to me, a combination of these and additional components would be required.

1. minimum of 150 dives
2. minimum certification of Rescue Diver
3. passing an assessment dive (or two)
4. Interview with the candidate to asses mental attitude, maturity, and sound judgement.

 

[Bennno]

I never advocated anyone to rush into deco I said I think intro to tech is very important to learn sooner than later. Then once they are prepared to enter tech they can. All diving is dangerous.

Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk

Here is what you said:

Number of dive doesn't mean ****. I have seen great divers complete tech courses right after AOW and some people will never ....

Doing tec classes after AOW to means deco classes to me. How is 'intro to tec' a tec class when you're not even doing deco? Trim, proper fining and such is are just proper diving skills and are not tec diving skills... people are being mislead by the marketing.
BTW, 'tec' is a stupid term.

 

[KevinNM]

Great diver with no experience (25 dives). Lol, right. Apperently the word 'great' has different meaning to you. What makes you think you can judge what's great or not? You are not a great '30 dives tec diver' are you?

One of the divers in my Fundimantals class had 20 dive,s the other 25 or so. They struggled, but so did I (they had less bad habits). We were all looking for Rec, not tech, but with motivation and good training you can get a long way pretty fast. You just have to avoid the "to fast too soon" problem, but that is another discussion.

 

[rivers]

This is what happens in a tech course when requirements are minimal. These divers shouldn't have been allowed on a recreational deep course, never mind passing a tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itt4eOqkboo

 

[RJP]

Right, the average diver with 20 dives is just as good as the average diver with 200 dives? Give me a break.

OK, then. What is the correct number of dives - with that being the ONLY thing you know about a diver - for you to judge them ready to begin tech training?

 

[Bennno]

You just have to avoid the "to fast too soon" problem, but that is another discussion.

The OP was talking about deco classes and so was I. 'Too fast too soon' actually was the discussion... nobody said not to take a fundi or intro to tec course.

 

[tomfcrist]

This is what happens in a tech course when requirements are minimal. These divers shouldn't have been allowed on a recreational deep course, never mind passing a tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itt4eOqkboo

Niether should the instructor. Seriously...WTF was that? On another note, they all had perfect trim....vertical trim.

 

[RJP]

Niether should the instructor.

Forget tec diving, I wouldn't sign off on an OW card for that guy.